There was a discussion a while back where Adrian proposed using<br>array data to abstract the database creation.<br><br>Each column and its attributes (number, text, ...etc.) will become<br>like FormAPI is today.<br><br>This removes the overhead of maintaining two (or more) separate
<br>schemas in the install.<br><br>Here is the discussion<br><a href="http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2006-05/msg00456.html">http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2006-05/msg00456.html</a><br><br>Here is the issue for it
<br><a href="http://drupal.org/node/63049">http://drupal.org/node/63049</a><br>