Magnus Manske wrote:
This would be hard to change later, so i'd like to start some discussion on this now before the category feature goes live.
Not really; a single SQL query should be enough to fill a new category table with values from the link table. The addition dates would be dummies, of course, but I could live with that. Downtime, if any, should be within minutes. Or we do it when we switch to the new DB server...
No, the problem is that *links to category pages* and *category links* are conflated in link tables in the present code, while they do different things.
Pulling the data from the present links table would not distinguish them; you'd have to parse every page involved.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)