[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14508: Always require wp-db.php

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#14508: Always require wp-db.php
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 Reporter:  nacin           |       Owner:  westi   
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.1     
Component:  Database        |     Version:          
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:          
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Comment(by nacin):

 Replying to [comment:10 wpmuguru]:
 Switching this around so DB plugins can inherit the default wpdb class
 should make it so that DB plugins won't need to be updated with every
 release of WordPress.

 That's actually doable now, though HyperDB demonstrates how it is a cheap
 hack. (It sets $wpdb to true, then includes wp-db.php.) The performance
 benefit here would be for opcode caches, by taking the include of wp-db
 out from behind a conditional. And, of course, it makes it a lot easier to
 extend wpdb, which as the hack indicates isn't really supported well at
 the moment.

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