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

[Doug Stewart]

On 4/15/07, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
> Robin Adrianse wrote:
> > I don't agree. One of my big, BIG pet peeves of the 2.1 release was that
> > link and post categories were, so to speak, "unified." If we're going to
> > separate them in the UI, then we should really put them in separate tables.
>
> By that argument we should have separate tables for posts, pages,
> uploads,

Yes, yes, yes.  Content.  I cannot count the number of times that
people have wanted to "categorize" pages.  They're fundamentally
different than each other and to cram them into the same table is a
bad notion, DB design-wise.

> rss feeds, rewrite rules...

No, no. Options

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-Doug

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