Wht different tables for post and postmeta

  • etrader

    (@etrader)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    Since postmeta contains corresponding data for post; why wordpress has two tables of wp_post and wp_postmeta? why not mixing them to store every data about a post within one single row?

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  • popper

    (@julialasarte)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    One reason is because you don’t know a priori how many fields of meta a given post will have, since users and plugins both can create additional meta fields for a post, using custom fields and whatnot.

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