A merge is where two devices' people meet: the same name typed on each,
or a redirect one of them made. So dedup_people::run now follows every
successful sync::merge_remote. It runs on the sync worker, never the
UI thread, before the snapshot is pushed, so what it folds reaches the
server on the same pass.
It runs in its own transaction, and a failure is logged, not
returned. What the merge took is committed and valid either way, and
the next pass tries again. Once a catalog is clean it costs 8-15 ms on
the reference library (19k faces, 26k people rows). On copies of the
two real catalogs, a round trip with a peer running the previous merge
converges on 75 listed named people on both sides and stays there
over a second round. merge_remote with the job takes 75-90 ms there.
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