Hibernate: equals/hashCode on a generated id breaks HashSet membership

Add an entity to a Set before persist and its id is null. Persist assigns one, the hashCode changes, and the object is now in the wrong bucket - present in the set but unfindable, including by itself.

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Published 2026-08-25