Marnen, in this case, what would you rather use? STI or polymorphism? On Sep 30, 11:13 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Christian Fazzini wrote: > > Well its the primary nature of the site. So expect to have tons of > > media types. Initially, I thought separating them would keep the > > tables smaller since each media type has its own table. > > There's generally no point to keeping tables smaller just for the sake > of keeping them smaller. If you have proper indices and well-designed > queries, your DB should be able to deal with large tables. > > STI is perhaps smelly for other reasons (polymorphism or composition is > often preferable), but in certain cases it really is the best way of > doing things. > > > > > Someone mentioned that having it as an STI is fine. Like any other app > > that becomes huge, we can always optimize? > > What's to optimize? > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > mar...@marnen.org > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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