I'm using Hibernate 3.1.3 and HSQLDB 1.8.0.4. I use backticks in my mapping files to quote my mixed-case table names. Everything works fine until I set hbm2ddl.auto to update.

When Hibernate starts up, it looks for the tables but fails to find them. It looks like the reason is that the table names are missing the quotes. It then tries to issue create table statements that have the quotes. Those statements fail because the tables already exist.

Could this be an instance of issue HHH-1205?

http://opensource.atlassian.com/project ... e/HHH-1205

Suggestions?

yes schemaupdate don't handle quoted table/column names afaik.

Do we know when this will fixed?

when someone contribute a fix + testcase to verify that it works.