[development] Why does the 'name' key in {sequences} have the table prefix prepended?

Moshe Weitzman weitzman at tejasa.com
Thu Feb 2 19:31:44 UTC 2006


> Is there any reason why we could *not* do this?

When you share tables across drupal sites, you must share the sequences 
table and thus the ids need to be unique.

if this pains you or others, I encourage you to submit a patch which 
gets rid of drupal sequences in favor of native DB sequences.

-moshe



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