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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #12668, comment 37

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5	5	And yes, creating tables is a slippery slope.
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7		However, custom tables can often be a much better fit for some purposes. Back to WooCommerce again, each order has a dozens of custom fields - order options, each part of each postal address etc. The rate at which the wp_postmeta grows as a result is frightening. I don't think WP was ever designed to be scaled in the direction that some of these plugins are taking it, and I hate to say it, but they really should be putting their data into more optimised tables of their own.
	7	However, custom tables can often be a much better fit for some purposes. Back to WooCommerce again, each order has a dozens of custom fields - order options, each part of each postal address etc. The rate at which the wp_postmeta grows as a result is frightening. I don't think WP was ever designed to be scaled in the direction that some of these plugins are taking it, and I hate to say it, but they really should be putting their data into more optimised (i.e. flatter and wider) tables of their own.
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9	9	I think this is always going to be a problem as WP is pushed more away from its simple blogging roots; the people pushing it to its limits are moving faster than WP ever will, and the limits causing immense performance issues on some sites are being exposed.