Re: [hibernate-dev] Why does implicit join translate to inner join?

2018-02-23 Thread Lukas Eder
2018-02-22 21:39 GMT+01:00 Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org>: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:11 AM Lukas Eder <lukas.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Steve, >> >> Thanks for your message. Of course, being explicit always has the >> advantage of ... bein

Re: [hibernate-dev] Why does implicit join translate to inner join?

2018-02-22 Thread Lukas Eder
Hi Steve, Thanks for your message. Of course, being explicit always has the advantage of ... being explicit. But my question here is really about the implicit join feature and how it works. 2018-02-22 15:57 GMT+01:00 Steve Ebersole : > it is better to be consistent in how

Re: [hibernate-dev] Why does implicit join translate to inner join?

2018-02-22 Thread Lukas Eder
on JPA 2.1 spec, 4.4.4 Path Expressions , "Path > expression navigability is composed using “inner join” semantics." > > On 22 February 2018 at 08:09, Lukas Eder <lukas.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Vlad Mihalcea [1] was so kind to point me

[hibernate-dev] Why does implicit join translate to inner join?

2018-02-22 Thread Lukas Eder
Hello, Vlad Mihalcea [1] was so kind to point me to this mailing list with my question about implicit joins. The user guide [2] states that: "Implicit joins are always treated as inner joins." To me, this seems wrong, semantically, if implicit joins follow optional (nullable) foreign key