Single Table Inheritance WITHOUT Discriminator column

Good Morning, my Dear comrades,

This is starting to be come annoying - a simple thing, but hours of struggle, am I getting old??

I am trying to map two Classes to a single table using JPA by Hibernate. The idea is to have only a small subset of columns in parent Class, and bigger/full set in the child Class. There is NO TABLE inheritance involved, only class inheritance. How can this be accomplished??

Doing this will not work:

@Entity
@Table(name = "the_table")
class Parent implements Serializable {
}

@Entity
@Table(name = "the_table")
class Child extends Parent implements Serializable {
}

Hibernate assumes default inheritance strategy InheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE, and is looking for discriminator column - DTYPE by default. But wait - there is no table inheritance, having the discriminator column does not make sence.

I have also taken a look at PolymorphismType.EXPLICIT which did not make any difference. The stack trace is:

Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown column 'apprentice0_.DTYPE' in 'where clause'
   at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
   at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
   at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
   at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:386)
   at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1052)
   at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3597)
   at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3529)
   at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1990)
   at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2151)
   at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2