[development] relationships API vs i18n

[James Walker]

On 9-Nov-06, at 10:14 PM, Angela Byron wrote:

>
> On 9-Nov-06, at 8:21 PM, Jeremy Epstein wrote:
>
>> It would be good to support relations between entities of any type,
>> not just nodes. So instead, we could have:
>>
>> CREATE TABLE relation (
>>  type char(12),
>>  id1 int,
>>  type1 char(12),
>>  id2 int,
>>  type2 char(12),
>>  weight int
>> );
>
> Would a "module" field here also be helpful, so you know which  
> module set the relation? And a "name" field perhaps? (maybe that's  
> getting a little too frilly ;))

Frilly, perhaps... but we've seen time and time again how tracking  
the module that is "maintaining" the relationship can be *very*  
helpful (files table anyone?) ... name is perhaps excessive, but  
personally I'd +1 it.
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