[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Merging Patrons

[Mike Rylander]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>> 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?)

Well, that's something the staff would assign -- a "default" card.
They're all equal, but one card needs to be more equal than the
others.

>
>> 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?
>

That's what I'm trying to get someone else to say, yeah.

My plan has worked!!! ;)

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