[Koha-bugs] [Bug 28490] Cannot modify patrons in some categories (e.g. Child category)

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28490

--- Comment #14 from Joonas Kylmälä <joonas.kylmala at helsinki.fi> ---
(In reply to Kyle M Hall from comment #13)
> (In reply to Joonas Kylmälä from comment #4)
> > Bug 28490 should have not been merged, it removed actively used data that is
> > only in borrowers.relationship, the non-patron guarantor info relationship.
> > We need to revert it and make database update re-create the table.
> 
> I don't think that bug is really the culprit. This is actually a culmination
> of changes starting with the multiple guarantors development. The decision
> was made to leave the alternate contact as a 'non-koha patron' guarantor,
> but no provision was made to be able to apply a relationship to that field!

What decision? However regardless of any decision we absolutely cannot just
remove completely a database column from koha which has been available in the
GUI for many releases to fill in with data, there could be for sure people
using that relationship column. Also what you say below about
altcontactrelationships I think it is best we restore the columns with the same
name "relationship" so that in case people have already upgraded to koha 21.05
and lost their data due to this error they are able to restore it from database
dump easily after we fix this issue. Changing the column name now would make
that process a lot more difficult.

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