[wp-hackers] New plugin: Groups - looking for feedback

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Sun Jan 22 16:08:58 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Karim "Kento" Rahimpur
<itthinx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why would someone want to judge a plugin by the "number of tables" it creates?

Because creating extra tables generally means that the plugin isn't
going to scale very well.

Websites aren't like other "systems" and require a different way of
looking at things. Normalized database design principles tend to fail
rather spectacularly when put on the web.

-Otto


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