[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Merging Patrons

[Jason Etheridge]

> My point was that it's better than an arbitrary/random card.

Right, it just might be effectively random from the point of view of
staff.  It's definitely arbitrary (how do you pick which active card
to go into .card?)

> The other part to consider is 1) how often will a merge occur (I mean,
> is it something that would happen often enough that mistakes would be
> probable) and 2) from that (assumed small) set of merges, how often
> would a split be required after some amount of time had passed?

And if the use case for unmerge happens once per epoch, then just let
folks fix things by hand (and/or database) if it happens, rather than
complicate the implementation for a seldom used feature?

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