Custom Fields again

[Bradley Baetz]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:44:18PM +0500, VFedrushkov at chel.LUKoil.com wrote:

> > Why is it a Big Deal? Or rather, why should it be a Big Deal?
> 
> Because we don't want custom fields to be 'cheap'.  Instead we 
> encourage administrator to think well before doing that.

Think of what? If someone wants a <foo> field, then, well, they want one
:)

> And yes, if custom fields reconfiguration would require me to take
> database offline, I'd first look how to implement desired feature
> within standard functionality.

Well, the point is that with custfields this will become standard
functionality.

OTOH, I'm not sure how long it would take to change the schema, even on
bmo - even with extrenal tables we still have to insert an entry for
every row (for some types, at least), and thats not cheap.

Bradley