https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29522
--- Comment #8 from Nick Clemens <n...@bywatersolutions.com> --- (In reply to Phil Ringnalda from comment #7) > There is a fourth scenario: when someone is intentionally updating an > authority in such a way that autolink will realize it should link to > something else, in order to avoid an actual old->new merge. > > authorities/merge.pl is optimized for merges where you are merging authid 10 > to authid 1, but you are keeping the 100 tag from 10, or you are keeping the > 008+040$f from 10 to give 1 a different $2 in the linked bib records, so > that there's a reason to update the headings in bibs linked to the kept > authority record. Whether or not the merge will make any difference to > linked bibs, it calls ModAuthority on 1, triggering a 1->1 merge by doing > so, and then merges 10->1. > > That makes merging Thrillers (Ficition) with 1 linked bib to Thrillers > (Fiction) with 13534 linked bibs a bad idea (unless you have MergeLimit over > 13534), since deferred merges aren't particularly robust. Even below > MergeLimit, it's a waste of time and electrons to update every linked bib > when you haven't made any changes that will update anything. So all day > every day, I change "Patterson, James" to "Patterson, James, 1947-" in an > authority record, expecting the attached bib to realize it should relink to > the existing authority. My extensive use of something isn't necessarily a > reason not to break it, but removing relinks for updating a single authority > would be a huge workflow frustration for me. It sounds like you are describing related bugs that you have created a workaround to avoid: 1 - Deferred merges aren't reliable? Could you file a bug with more details on what the problem is with deferred merges? 2 - Linked biblios should not be updated when the authorized heading, including indicators and thesaurus values, have not changed I don't think it is a general expectation that merging or updating authorities would end up linking the biblio headings to a different authority. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list Koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
