[wp-hackers] Taxonomy Schema Proposal

Steve Lewis stevelle at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 20:06:24 GMT 2007


On 4/18/07, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
>
> Steve Lewis wrote:
> > Why should we?  If we are storing these things in one table, I think the
> > term_slug ought to be a UNIQUE key.  If I can have a distinct
> 'cocktails'
> > tag and 'cocktails' category, then I stubbornly insist we stop storing
> them
> > in the same table. :)
>
> Check out the new schema, they're completely different and effectively
> in different tables. However, this type of argument is what made the
> discussion on trac so difficult and what led me to just put some code
> out there.
>

Color me confused.  The new proposed schema on-list?  As in the one that
discusses 'terms' perhaps?  The one I am replying to?
Categories are not in a distinct table from Tags because they are both in
wp_terms in the proposed schema I am replying to.

I must have missed something.
-- 
SteveL


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