pp wrote:

> > > yes.... but I thought if mgd_get_person accept now username and id.
> > > It could not be sa hard for mgd_get_person.
> > I don't understand?
>
> Solt voted to mgd_get_person could accept person username.
> I thought It was changed, so this function allow using person's id or username.

It does.

> > But this info needs to be collected anyway if you want to use it.
> > Whether you do it in your script, or it is called automatically, the
> > performance issue will be the same.
>
> Emile, My English is not good ;)
> I am talking about two things.
> The first about creating articles with some author.
> And the soecond one about getting 500-1000 articles
> created with many authors , and getting creator's username.

I do understand. But as said earlier, where does it stop? What you want
is a de-normalization of the database, and while that does offer extra
performance, de-normalizing the _entire_ database (because, why would we
stop at the creator username?) is a consistency nightmare.

What we want is a more flexible way to fetch queries, I guess..

Emile



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