[wp-hackers] Taxonomy Schema Proposal

[Lloyd Budd]

On Nov 18, 2007 4:17 AM, Gali <galeenet at gmail.com> wrote:
> (up up up)
> I'm working on the term_taxonomy table... here is one thought
>
>
> Isn't the description of the "taxonomy" field a definition for a "ENUM" field ?
> Optimisation of disk usage, consistency, and still allows a plugin to
> add a permitted value to the ENUM list.
> And not as normalized as an external table.

I don't know what I'm talking about, but smart sounding people seem
generally afraid of ENUMs because to change them you have to alter
table, which triggers a table rebuild.

Hope that helps,
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