[wp-hackers] Rebuttal (re: Meta tables: Take 5)

[mikeschinkel at newclarity.net]

For clarity, it's not the number of types that would matter, it's the  
number of meta records that would matter.  Each meta record could  
store an int or a varchar(??).

With 100k records and 10 meta per record you can easily get 1 million+  
strings in an index which isn't nearly as efficient as ints.

JMTCW.


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On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:50 PM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:44 PM, <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
>
>> One thing to consider; in the "standard" approach would it make  
>> sense to
>> have meta type stored in it's own table so that the type field in  
>> the meta
>> table could be an INT and thus stored and indexed efficiently?
>>
>
>
> I don't think there would be that many types to justify an  
> additional table,
> at least not at first.
>
>
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