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

[Baki Goxhaj]

I was not part of the decision and I'm not a DB expert, so somebody else
will have to answer that :)

Kindly,

Baki Goxhaj
www.wplancer.com | www.banago.info | proverbhunter.com


On 15 January 2011 16:33, Alexander Hempton-Smith <hempsworth at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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