Hibernate: two List fetch joins in one query is MultipleBagFetchException

A List with no @OrderColumn is a 'bag' - unordered and duplicate-tolerant. Joining two bags produces a cartesian product Hibernate cannot unpick back into two collections, so it refuses at startup rather than returning wrong data.

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Published 2026-08-25