Deleting related data. Best practice? 🤔

[ralphlasry]

Bulk Delete in Parent-Child Tables

Problem As has been mentioned previously (see here, here, and here, for example), bulk operations in Bubble are not performant. Even the recommended approach of recursive back-end workflows on a list are a frequent source of Bubble’s grating “Workflow Error - Sorry we ran into a bug. Try back later”. This log message shows up for lists larger than a few hundred items during execution of workflows with immediate iteration. From our experience this log message is actually a symptom of back-end ca…