[development] One-to-one tables considered harmful

[Robert Douglass]

Earl Miles wrote:
> search.module -- not sure what's up with that.
>
It is only a code comment... false positive in the grep.

> In a world where some people have actually written an alternative 
> comment.module because the existing comment.module isn't adequate, I 
> beg, please, do not change Drupal's fundamental architecture.
>
The node_comment module uses the node_comment_statistics table as well. 
 From that point of view, it would make no difference at all whether the 
column were in the node table... in fact the node_comment module would 
undoubtedly benefit from moving it since we perform the same 1:1 join 
and sort that David is complaining about. This isn't my full 
endorsement, but just the perspective of the node_comment maintainer.

-Robert