[wp-hackers] A "terms" table

[Denis de Bernardy]

> Ryan said:
>
> > Having "dogs" in a category table have one ID and "dogs" in a tag 
> > table have a different ID is a long-term deck of cards that we will 
> > seriously regret later. It's MUCH harder to reconcile items with 
> > internally different IDs than it is to split out unique IDs into 
> > different tables.
> 
> I agree with these points.  These points are the reason I 
> tried to make the current design work.

Might be me, but... Why not use a sequence in common for the tables and
database views artificially to merge their contents? Lack of features in
MySQL?

D.