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[Omry Yadan]

This will work, but it has an extra penalty of checking if something is
a post and if the title is in the database for each access.

I`d rather avoid extra overhead.


I thought that guid was not supposed to change, thanks for making it clear.


Mark Jaquith wrote:

> On Sep 14, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Omry Yadan wrote:
>
>> the big question is, can I trust the post guid? what happens if the user
>> changes the permalink structure? will the post guid be changed with it?
>
> Post GUIDs should not change after they are set.  They are not a
> reliable indicator of the current URL for the post.  They are merely a
> unique token for that post.
>
> How about a rolling upgrade that happens as posts are accessed?  That
> is, the first time a post is accessed, see if you have its title in
> your table structure.  If not, add it then.
>
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