SOQL Datatable - Multi-line inline edit causing UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW

[jmanueljohnson]

Using the soqlDatatable to mass edit a set of child records with a common parent can cause an UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW error especially when there is any automation triggered by the update of the parent record. Seems like the issue could be that the multi-line edit uses updateRecord and processes each edit in a separate transaction instead of in a batch.

[tsalb]

Ah this is a very fair point on the potentially unoptimized design. I’ve leaned pretty hard into “following platform” (I.e use LDS even for ILE since that was straight in the docs).

IMO, if the datatable docs uses LDS for updating one would assume they would take care of concerns like chunking.

The other solve would be to create a fork in the update DML (thus, a configurable option somewhere) to use LDS vs Apex.

For now, keeping this open for visibility but no action yet.