[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Disjunction Criteria broken: returns true for empty list of criteria

When you form a Hibernate Disjunction criteria, but don't add any clauses to it, you get a criteria that matches everything. Generally, when you perform a reduction over an empty list, the expected result is the identity element for the reduction. For example, the sum of the empty list is 0, the p

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate Disjunction Criteria broken: returns true for empty list of criteria

> > Yes the whole point of all WHERE clauses is to filter/reduce the available > data-set. I see this point of view but... No, the point of a where clause it to give you the data you want. A query that gives me no results back is far more useful and common than a query that materializes my entir