[hibernate-dev] Bulk delete behavior for collection tables

Hey, so HHH-5529 <https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-5529> defines a feature which I'd like to work on but want to hear opinions first. Currently, bulk deletes only clear join tables of the affected entity type. I guess one could argue that this was done because collection table in contrast to join table entries should be bound to the entity table lifecycle by using an FK with delete cascading. Or maybe it just wasn't implemented because nobody stepped up. I'd like to fill this gap and implement the deletion of the collection table entries, but make that and the join table entry deletion configurable. Does anyone have anything against that? Would you prefer a single configuration option for join table and collection table clearing? If we enable that option by default, collection tables will then be cleared whereas currently users would get a FK violation. Don't know if that can be classified as breaking behavior. Or have two configuration options? Even then, would we enable collection table entry deletion by default? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Christian Beikov*