[Foundation-l] Commons Usurp issue

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Ryan <wiki.ral315 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In the revisions table, both user name and user ID are stored.
>>
>> -Chad
>>
>
> That seems really odd.  I don't doubt you, because given problems I've seen
> with buggy renames, it makes sense, but why in the world would we duplicate
> this information?  It seems to violate every principle of database design
> and normalization.
>
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Because anons don't have an associated user_id.