[development] Database / SQL future thoughts

Larry Garfield larry at garfieldtech.com
Tue May 5 01:11:37 UTC 2009


On Monday 04 May 2009 3:22:51 pm Yves Chedemois wrote:
> Karoly Negyesi a ecrit le 04/05/2009 21:22:
> > One comment here.. the field API storage is pluggable.
>
> ... but some work is still needed for this feature to be really usable :
> http://drupal.org/node/443422
>
> We need people to jump in, here :-)
>
> Yves

I'd go a step farther and say that the field system backend is not pluggable in 
any useful sense until/unless it becomes at *least* per-object-type.  Per-field 
is the ideal, but object type is the absolute minimum to call it "pluggable" 
with a straight face.

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Larry Garfield
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