Hi,

I have a parent/child relationship.
My child table has several million records.

I've just migrated from EJB entity beans to hibernate, and everything works fine, except that I can't add a child to a parent withou causing hibernate to read all child entities into the collection.

I do something like this

variable = getVariable( ... );
sample = new Sample( ... );
variable.getSamples().add( sample );

this takes a lot of time, because hibernate fills the collection with all the samples.

any ideias on how to improve mapping/code to get rid of this and generate just one insert statement ?

I've read chapter 8 of the docs, and serached through the forum...

thanks

If your model allows it then do sample.setVariable(v);

ok, I'll change my model to accomodate that.

just to clarify, it's impossible to add to a collection withou loading it ?

thanks
Ricardo

Bags and lists may be added to without initializing.

This is because of the return value of add().