Christian Beikov ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?accountId=557058%... ) *commented* on HHH-15530 ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-15530?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiODljM2... ) Re: Lazy loading is not working when @NotFound IGNORE is used ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-15530?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiODljM2... ) You don’t have to delete the rows. You can simply set the FK column to null. There even is the option for a foreign key to configure on delete set null in case you don’t want to do that in your app, see e.g. the PostgreSQL documentation https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-constraints.html#DDL-CONSTRAI... ( https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-constraints.html#DDL-CONSTRAI... ) ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-15530#add-comment?atlOrigin=ey... ) Add Comment ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-15530#add-comment?atlOrigin=ey... ) Get Jira notifications on your phone! Download the Jira Cloud app for Android ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atlassian.android.jira.... ) or iOS ( https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1006972087?pt=696495&ct=Em... ) This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v1001.0.0-SNAPSHOT#100207- sha1:a65942b )