[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Merging Patrons

[Mike Rylander]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com> wrote:
[snip]
>> Anyway, there are my thoughts, just off the top of my head.  Is that
>> heading toward what you were thinking of in terms of implementation?
>
> Mike, in the past, I know you were also musing using actor.cards as an
> indirect link to users in places where users are referenced.  So, for
> example, transactions would follow the cards and not the users, and
> then, for duped users you could simply move their cards to the good
> users.  Is this still viable/desirable?
>

Desirable, yes.  But slowed by the same issues I describe here, only
bigger, because we'd be changing entities and the code would have to
be very heavily refactored.

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