[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-772?page=co... ] Richard Dingwall commented on HHH-772: -------------------------------------- I also have a use case that requires this behaviour. Java supports it, the database supports it, why can't Hibernate or NHibernate support it? Otherwise at least an exception should be thrown alerting the caller that it cannot be persisted (as would occur in other situations). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira