Force Hibernate Insert Without Select Statements

Question

I am attempting to insert a new record into a table that I know is unique before hand. I have tried calling save() on the object, but that does a bunch of SELECT statements

Answer 1

Hibernate doesn't issue a select to see if an object is unique upon a save(). In point of fact, Hibernate doesn't even issue an insert when you call save(). That happens when you flush() or commit the transaction. You'll need to find out exactly what the selects are for and what's initiating them. To help narrow it down, you could write a quick test like

Session session = openSession();
Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
session.save(myObject);
tx.commit();

and see what statements that produces.