[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10657: Allow many-to-many relationship between posts and attachments (was: Posts column "post_parent" should be an array when "post_type" is "attachment")

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#10657: Allow many-to-many relationship between posts and attachments
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 Reporter:  morgansson       |       Owner:             
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  2.9        
Component:  Media            |     Version:  2.8.4      
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:  needs-patch
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Changes (by scribu):

  * keywords:  post_parent, post_type, attachment, array => needs-patch
  * version:  => 2.8.4
  * milestone:  Unassigned => 2.9


Comment:

 SQL doesn't have arrays. One column can contain a single value per row.

 Of course, you can use serialized arrays (which are strings), but they
 aren't good, because you can't query individual values from them.

 There is a GSOC project called Photopress that will likely allow an image
 to be attached to more than one post.

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