It's not a direct answer to your question, but are you sure the authors haven't been merged before (causing the error)?
Whenever I encountered the fail message, I imagined some author(s) had too many works; the author references couldn't be updated before a timeout. Doing the merge in steps worked well in (most of) these cases. In some cases I think the merge continued despite the error message. Checking back later revealed that. I have wondered whether the whole merge operation is transaction safe (either succes: all changes are committed, or failure: none are committed), but as I haven't encountered errors after many merges, I stopped wondering. Ben On 10 March 2013 00:30, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > When I get an author merge failure, is it likely that it will succeed at > some point in the future if I retry it or is a permanent error? > > A recent example that I tried was this one for Charles Schultz: > > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4361397A/Charles_M._Schulz?merge=true&duplicates=OL6889715A,OL2627137A,OL3120928A,OL2627572A,OL3235100A,OL4766397A,OL5596735A,OL3120936A,OL3297636A,OL3351492A,OL3473907A,OL3474707A,OL3763665A,OL3948598A > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
