Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Adding arbitrary field to mailbox table

[Tanstaafl <tan...@li...>]

On 4/8/2011 2:21 PM, Christian Boltz wrote:
> Am Freitag, 8. April 2011 schrieb Tanstaafl:
>> Why not just add one special table for *all* special fields?

> Because it makes things more difficult:
> - you have to JOIN two tables in SELECT queries (which will become a 
>   pain at least for listing mailboxes - it already has an 
>   interesting[tm] query)
> - you have to write to two tables in INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE
> - things will become really funny if you want to extend more than one 
>   table
> 
> Trust me: you (usually) don't want that ;-)

I'd be happy to just take your word for it... but thanks also for the
explanation as to why...

:)