[wp-hackers] Improving WordPress' Performance WAS Changing MySQL minimum version

[Computer Guru]

> While there are some field names that bug me, like ID vs post_id,
> besides that I don't think there is anything fundamentally I would
> change in WP's schema (from 2.1) to make it faster or more "efficient."
> Some folks from MySQL donated some time to review WP and their
> improvements are in 2.1.
> 
> Did you have anything specific in mind?
> 

Nope. I'm no DB expert, and I do know that 2.1 is heavily improved. I just
thought there might be some people that had ideas. I had no idea MySQL OK'd
our DB structure.. that's awesome :)

So it's just the hard-to-fix stuff now.. :(