I found this HQL query that I am trying to understand. The comment says that LEFT JOINmakes Hibernate eagerly load related objects into the child table, and a modifier is DISTINCTneeded to filter out duplicate parent objects in the result set. Do these comments make sense? I have not seen a connection used like this before.
SELECT DISTINCT p FROM Parent AS p
LEFT JOIN p.children AS c
WHERE p.state = 1
ORDER BY p.modified
Note is cnot used in sentences WHEREor ORDER BY.
It seems to be safe to replace this query with a simpler one:
SELECT p FROM Parent AS p
WHERE p.state = 1
ORDER BY p.modified
But I'm not sure if there is a good reason why the original request was written as is.