[[rest-api-automatically-indexed-relationships-cannot-be-removed-from-the-index-manually]]
=== Automatically indexed relationships cannot be removed from the index manually ===

It is not allowed to remove entries manually from automatic indexes.


.Final Graph
["dot", "Final-Graph-Automatically-indexed-relationships-cannot-be-removed-from-the-index-manually.svg", "neoviz"]
----
  N205 [
    label = "{Node\[205\]|}"
  ]
  N206 [
    label = "{Node\[206\]|}"
  ]
  N206 -> N205 [
    color = "#2e3436"
    fontcolor = "#2e3436"
    label = "know\nsince = \'today\'\l"
  ]
----

_Example request_

* *+DELETE+*  +http://localhost:7474/db/data/index/relationship/relationship_auto_index/89+
* *+Accept:+* +application/json+

_Example response_

* *+405:+* +null+
* *+Content-Type:+* +application/json+
[source,javascript]
----
{
  "message" : "read only index",
  "exception" : "UnsupportedOperationException",
  "stacktrace" : [ "org.neo4j.kernel.AbstractAutoIndexerImpl$ReadOnlyIndexToIndexAdapter.readOnlyIndex(AbstractAutoIndexerImpl.java:253)", "org.neo4j.kernel.AbstractAutoIndexerImpl$ReadOnlyIndexToIndexAdapter.remove(AbstractAutoIndexerImpl.java:283)", "org.neo4j.server.rest.web.DatabaseActions.removeFromRelationshipIndexNoKeyValue(DatabaseActions.java:900)", "org.neo4j.server.rest.web.RestfulGraphDatabase.deleteFromRelationshipIndex(RestfulGraphDatabase.java:1200)", "java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)", "org.neo4j.server.statistic.StatisticFilter.doFilter(StatisticFilter.java:62)" ]
}
----


