[wp-hackers] New plugin: Groups - looking for feedback

Mika A Epstein ipstenu at ipstenu.org
Sun Jan 22 17:42:44 UTC 2012


How would those extra tables work with regards to MultiSite as well?

On 22 Jan 2012, at 10:08:58AM, Otto wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Karim "Kento" Rahimpur
> <itthinx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why would someone want to judge a plugin by the "number of tables" it creates?
> 
> Because creating extra tables generally means that the plugin isn't
> going to scale very well.
> 
> Websites aren't like other "systems" and require a different way of
> looking at things. Normalized database design principles tend to fail
> rather spectacularly when put on the web.
> 
> -Otto
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