The docs seem to suggest I can define a custom delete method on my repository in the same way I can define a custom query method. For example:

@Table data class Entity(val name: String, @Id val id: UUID? = null) interface EntityRepository : CrudRepository<Entity, UUID> { fun deleteByName(name: String) } 

However, calling the method doesn't delete anything. Enabling debug logging for Spring Data, it looks like Spring is attempting to query instead of delete:

SELECT "ENTITY"."ID" AS "ID", "ENTITY"."NAME" AS "NAME" FROM "ENTITY" WHERE "ENTITY"."NAME" = ? 

Is this actually supported? The docs are slightly vague in the sense that they only really mention it in passing.

Reproducable example: https://github.com/chris-unlikelyai/springdataissue2