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

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Thu Oct 4 18:40:56 GMT 2007


Well, here's a first stab at it:

CREATE TABLE $wpdb->meta (
  meta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,
  meta_type varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
  meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,
  meta_value longtext,
  PRIMARY KEY  (meta_id),
  KEY meta_key (meta_key)
  KEY meta_type (meta_type)
) $charset_collate;

meta_id is a unique identifer for each meta entry.
object_id is the id of whatever it links to (post, comment, whatever)
meta_type defines what type of thing it's for (post, comment, whatever).
key and value should be obvious.



On 10/4/07, Andy Skelton <skeltoac at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like it. A good starting point would be a CREATE TABLE statement.
> Would you post it here when you've got it designed?
>
> Andy
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