Comment 25 for bug 1251394

I was curious about the state of this, so I rebased the most recent branch, updated a few functions to match current master, did some light squashing, and added a sign-off for Dan's SQL fix commit:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/berick/lp1251394-metabib-display-fields-rebase-circa-2.12

Code still works. And it's still fast (and very satisfying) to do stuff like this and get a list of display fields for a bib record:

srfsh# request open-ils.pcrud open-ils.pcrud.search.mfde "ANONYMOUS", {"source":1}

(Now even faster w/ anon-pcrud mode -- ~10ms).

What's our bar for getting this merged? If we want to demonstrate its use in live code, I can think of a few web staff UI's that would be fairly simple to port to display fields. (I'm thinking specifically of a few that use normalized reporter data for title, author, etc., display). In any event, I can help push this along if there's interest / feedback on what's left.

Other TODO items include PGTAP tests and release notes.