[wp-hackers] Confusion About the **Meta Table

[Alexander Hempton-Smith]

Why was it decided that there would be individual meta tables for each
mother table? Why not one universal meta table for all of the others?
With a reference on each record to what it's parent table is.

I ask because I'm designing the db for an app I'm building and
considered having one meta table to serve all the others (where
necessary)

Sorry if it's OT :)

-- Alex

Sent from my iPhone

On 15 Jan 2011, at 15:25, Baki Goxhaj <banago at gmail.com> wrote:

> To store meta data of the mother tables, as the name would suggest. Have you
> heard of custom fields? It is there where their data is stored.
>
> Kindly,
>
> Baki Goxhaj
> www.wplancer.com | www.banago.info | proverbhunter.com
>
>
> On 15 January 2011 16:23, 肖晗 <xiaohan2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I noticed that there are several **meta table in wordpress database, such
>> as
>> wp_usermeta,wp_commentmeta and wp_postmeta.
>> And what are those meta table used to do?
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