I refer to this ticket where a meta data table is created in newer infinispan versions:

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/ISPN-12204

If I set TableManipulationConfigurationBuilder to createOnStart(false)

infinispan will create a row in meta data table each time I start infinispan. So the database table will grow and grow. I don't think this is an intended behavior?

The relevant code is found org.infinispan.persistence.jdbc.impl.table.AbstractTableManager in method updateMetaTable() it will execute an INSERT INTO on every call.

This method is called at startup from org.infinispan.persistence.jdbc.stringbased.JdbcStringBasedStore method start().

So on every startup we have a new row in meta data table.