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

[Matt Mullenweg]

Otto wrote:
> We're doing weird stuff in WP too, like
> attachments as posts and other things that would be better served by
> good metadata. A refactoring of these is in order, and if a combined
> meta helps push that along, I'm all for it.

I would be strongly against moving attachments or other types of 
sub-posts out of the posts table. If nothing else, these items need the 
ability to have their own comments.

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