Hi, This is a follow-up of https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/pull/767 . So, in the PR, I commented the following test: ManyToOneGlobalTest>ManyToOneTest.testRemovalOfTransientEntityWi thAssociation (the "ManyToOneGlobalTest>" part is important) The test is a Redis one but the issue is a general one. When running under the ManyToOneGlobalTest umbrella, the associations are created as separate documents. The behavior of the test is the following: ======================== === Creation phase Create a SalesForce with 2 SalesGuys associated. The association is managed by SalesGuy. It creates 4 documents: SalesForce1 SalesGuy1 SalesGuy2 SalesForce1_SalesGuy navigational information === Let's delete the SalesForce1 entity It removes the SalesForce1 document (note that SalesGuy.salesForce has a @NotFound(action = NotFoundAction.IGNORE) annotation). So we end up with having: SalesGuy1 SalesGuy2 SalesForce1_SalesGuy navigational information [1] === Then we delete the 2 SalesGuy SalesGuys1 removed -> SalesForce_SalesGuy navigational information updated SalesGuy2 removed -> SalesForce1_SalesGuy navigational information removed as it is empty [2] ======================== In [1], we still have the navigational information for SalesForce1 <-> SalesGuys. With the new grouping infrastructure, I don't save every operation to the datastore as it's currently done. I have to store the Association object somewhere to keep track of the association state so I store it in OgmEntityEntryState in a Map<String, Association>, the key being the role of the association, just next to the Tuple which has the same purpose. It works perfectly well except that when we arrive at [2], the OgmEntityEntryState for SalesForce1 is gone as the entity has been removed in [1] so I can't access the OgmEntityEntryState of the entity and so the association document is not removed (and thus the test fails as it checks there isn't any entity/association left). Gunnar proposed the idea of storing the inverse Associations in the OgmEntityEntryState of the association owner. It's indeed one way to solve the issue. The issue with this approach is that we need to have the association owner when we create the AssociationPersister and, while it's not a problem for most of the cases, I don't see how I can do it in OgmLoader#getResultSet. I posted a WIP patch here: https://gist.github.com/gsmet/e18ccb7d3f3494bb334647e540d0d4d0. Opinions, thoughts? -- Guillaume _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev