[hibernate-dev] Configuration to support batching (or sorting) of DELETE statements efficiently

Hi, Hibernate provides simple configuration properties to enable batch inserts and updates using "hibernate.order_inserts" and "hibernate.order_updates" respectively. These setting allow hibernate to sort the insert and update statements and process them in batches efficiently. But we don't have such a configuration to sort or batch delete statements efficiently. Especially with CascadeType.DELETE we can see that delete statements are not batched effectively and could result in extra network calls to the database for deletion.(Refer: http://vladmihalcea.com/2015/03/26/how-to-batch-delete-statements-with-hi... ) So I am thinking wouldn't it be a good feature to have hibernate support similar configuration, say "hibernate.order_deletes", to enable batch deletes similar to updates and inserts. Cheers, Madhu.