[wp-hackers] 2.4 Feature Proposal: New general meta-data table

[Will Norris]

just wanted to ping the list and see if this issue has gained any  
traction?

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2659
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5183


On Oct 4, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Austin Matzko wrote:

> For WordPress 2.4, I propose that we add a general meta-data table.
> It would be similar in structure to the current postmeta and usermeta
> tables, except with an additional field specifying the domain of the
> meta-data.
>
> There are at least a couple of benefits to such a table:
>
> - We could have meta-data for comments and categories.
> Others have proposed meta tables for the comments [1]; rather than
> adding meta tables seriatim, a general meta-data table would meet that
> need and offer the possibility of actually reducing the total number
> of tables.
>
> - It would provide a better place for plugins to store data.
> Currently, most plugins---when they don't have enough data to justify
> creating their own table---store data in the options table.  I think
> there are disadvantages to bloating the options table, one of which is
> that WP loads almost all options into the object cache.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> [1] http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2659