[Koha-devel] Merging authority records can corrupt data

[Thomas Klausner]

Hi!

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:11:13PM +0000, Pedro Amorim wrote:
 
> Not sure if this will help but what is the value of the
> *AuthorityMergeLimit* sys pref?
> I think the default value is 50 and any authority being merged with more
> than 50 linked biblios will be processed by the
> *misc/migration_tools/merge_authority.pl
> <http://merge_authority.pl>* cronjob (which runs daily by default if I'm
> not mistaken).

I didn't know about that setting (or the cronjob), but it is set to 50. 
But we'll try to set it to a lower value (and make sure that the cronjob 
is set up).

> In the past I reported an issue with subsequent authority merging (that get
> queued to be processed by the cronjob):
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22437
> 
> But I believe this has been fixed.

ok, thanks, I'll also take a look at this bug and it's fix.

Thanks a lot!

Greetings,
domm


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