Emond Papegaaij ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?accountId=557058%... ) *commented* on HHH-16025 ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-16025?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiMjAyYj... ) Re: Using BatchEntitySelectFetchInitializer with caching leads to caching wrong values ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-16025?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiMjAyYj... ) Not only the cache gets corrupted, but the @PostLoad lifecycle event gets triggered before the entity is completely assembled. During the @PostLoad , the references are all still null. I've constructed a testcase that demonstrates both issues. The @PostLoad contains a System.out.println for the reference, which you can see is null. It finally fails on the entity being loaded from the 2nd level cache with a null reference. For this test, I had to select CacheConcurrencyStrategy.NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE. I’m not exactly sure why, but with the default strategy the cache was not updated with the results of the query. I ran into this issue in our application on WildFly 27 (with a patched version of hibernate 6.1.6) and an Infinispan cache, and we do not specify a CacheConcurrencyStrategy. ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-16025#add-comment?atlOrigin=ey... ) Add Comment ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-16025#add-comment?atlOrigin=ey... ) Get Jira notifications on your phone! Download the Jira Cloud app for Android ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atlassian.android.jira.... ) or iOS ( https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1006972087?pt=696495&ct=Em... ) This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v1001.0.0-SNAPSHOT#100214- sha1:b03f6a4 )