Hibernate doesn't seem to be able to update my tables (e.g. add columns) at startup. It creates them for the first time just fine and everything else works great, but it doesn't seem to be able to do updates to the table definitions.

I'm using mysql 4.1.14 on a gentoo linux machine. The property hibernate.hbm2dll.auto is set to auto. I've tried running with both Hibernate 3.0.5 and 3.1rc2.

I've done some digging and saw other issues like this one. It looks like it's an issue with the table names. My table names are all lower-case and the hbm2dll tool uses all upper-case characters when trying to lookup the table names so it fails to see them. According to this http://opensource2.atlassian.com/projec ... wse/HB-409 it should be fixed (and for a long time it looks like), but I'm still running into this problem.

Any suggestions?