[wp-hackers] DB options table; useless columns?

[DD32]

Thanks Matt, That explains it.

Guru:
The upgrade plan *could* specify that a column gets deleted, i dont know  
if thats currently in there, and it'd only be used to delete specific  
columns that WP used, and threw away.
IT'd not be set to just kill anu user columns.
Yes, Those columns are created in a new install of WP.

My guess is that its legacy, If there are plugins, or hacks still in use  
today which reference those columns, and they're installed on a WP install  
without those columns, its more likely the user will have strange error  
messages from WP, they may not understand what they're on about, they just  
wanted to use that functioanlity from this plugin from the dark ages...

Cheers,
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