[wp-hackers] Grab a seat. On Delaying 2.2, separating tables

[Computer Guru]

I agree with your deduction there, but I disagree with regards to proper programming procedure.

DB optimization doesn't make a difference how many entries there are in the table... If it was 1 or 1000, the query complexity and db-clutter will not be changed.....

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> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Matt
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Grab a seat. On Delaying 2.2, separating
> tables
> 
> +0.5
> 
> I think that Tags should have it's own table, but Link Categories and
> Post
> Categories *should* be in the same table, simply because most people
> probably won't have very many Link Cats, so you'll end up with a Table
> with
> like less than 10 rows in it.
> 
> 
> On 4/15/07, Brian Layman <Brian at thecodecave.com> wrote:
> >
> > > For what it's worth I'll cast my vote in favour. Getting rid of the
> > link categories table was itself bad
> > > database design and adding tags just compounds that. It's no way to
> > treat a relational database!
> >
> > I've not looked at the tagging implementation, but I will +1
> categories
> > (re)split.  I never saw the bang for the buck of unifying these two
> > tables and while conversions weren't quite as bad as I predicted them
> to
> > be (on this list), we still lost features and broke parts of sites
> (link
> > categories suddenly appearing that were hidden before, missing blog
> roll
> > side bar sections, and other oddities.).  I can't imagine adding tags
> to
> > the same table will be a path to future success.  That table is going
> to
> > need to be split again at some point.  These are not all uniform
> > concepts.  Let's do it now before we get further down the path.
> >
> > Thanks for bringing this up again Robert.
> >
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