Cascading delete for DBRefs
Since transactions have been added in 2018, which work across collections (https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/transactions/) and across shards (https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/transactions-sharded-clusters/), shouldn't cascading deletes be possible now? I only worked with sql transactions in the past, but my intuition would be that it should be fairly easy to do this in a client:
- start a transaction
- fetch document
- look for dbref fields
- fetch those docs
- continue at 2 until all docs have been found, stopping at branches when a doc has already been fetched
- go back in reverse and delete all of them
- commit transaction
If this is possible to do in a client, it should be possible to do on the server as well, shouldn't it?
Old and possibly outdated feature request: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1298?signupSource=Account
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