Ben, good thinking. I looked at an author to merge (Terry Pratchett), found two author entries, clicked on merge, and then discovered that they had already been merged (by me) before. So I don't know why two versions are displaying. I also tried the Schulz query and got the same error. Problem is, this may take some intense de-bugging, and I don't think there's anyone with the knowledge and time at the moment. Once Anand finishes his transfer of the backend to the Archive, and indexing is happening again, it might be good to look at this. Tom M, would you be willing to file a bug report so that we don't forget it?
Thanks, kc On 3/12/13 4:13 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: > 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] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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]
