Is there some difference between what you are proposing and:
http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#drop-step
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:18 PM, pieter gmail <pieter.mar...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if we can add a remove step. Currently to remove elements
> I iterate the traversal and call remove on each element. Adding a remove
> step will make it possible to optimize removals.
>
> Its probably less useful for Neo4j and TinkerGraph, not sure about Janus
> but for Sqlg,
>
> g.V().hasLabel("X").rm() will translate to one sql truncate statement.
> Currently to do a remove it loads all 'X's and deletes them one by one. Bit
> of optimizing with a bulk deletion vibe but it could be way better if there
> was a step to optimize.
>
> Thanks
> Pieter
>
