[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14513: Time for a wp_post_relationships table?

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#14513: Time for a wp_post_relationships table?
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 Reporter:  mikeschinkel     |        Owner:          
     Type:  feature request  |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal           |    Milestone:          
Component:  Post Types       |      Version:  3.0.1   
 Severity:  normal           |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:                   |  
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Comment(by mikeschinkel):

 Replying to [comment:10 Denis-de-Bernardy]:
 > Replying to [comment:8 mikeschinkel]:
 > I certainly agree that using taxonomies is unrealistic -- things are
 then broken, slow, awkward, etc. Then again, any generic posts
 relationship table I can think of would end up looking like:
 >
 > - nodes (id, type)
 > - node2node (parent, child, type)

 Definitely another consideration.  I had hoped to others would propose
 alternate and possibly better implementations, as you just did. (I was
 actually surprised when some of the first response was "it's not needed.")
 So thanks.

 Replying to [comment:12 Otto42]:
 > Let's focus on getting terms (and comments) integrated with posts first.
 As that happens, then it might just turn out that we really need this
 along the way.

 Yes, that sounds like a great plan. Thanks.

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