Re: Re: [pear-webmaster] Re: [PEAR-QA] Thought about unmaintained package (Net_IRC in this case)

From: Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:15:42 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: [pear-webmaster] Re: [PEAR-QA] Thought about unmaintained package (Net_IRC in this case)
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Daniel Convissor wrote:
To save on database columns, etc, I'd suggest putting the word "unmaintained" in the deprecated column and when performing output, have an if statement that displays an appropriate message.
At risk of sounding trollish, mixing data types like this is bad for the database. In this scenario, a column that would normally be DATETIME or INT type now becomes VARCHAR. It's akin to putting delimited data in a single column, IMO. An additional column to denote an additional property is the way to go. In a small DB, this won't matter (but is still poor design), in a larger one, it will. S

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