#30262 Combine terms and term_taxonomy tables

[johnbillion]

This is some initial investigation into the feasibility of doing this. Thar be dragons.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30262

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[spacedmonkey]

I am very interested in being involved in this ticket. Please ping me for code review.

[johnbillion]

Cheers Jonny, will do. I'm going to try an alternative approach (converting wp_terms to a view and retaining the wp_term_taxonomy table) and then we can evaluate the pros and cons of both and go from there.

[spacedmonkey]

The approach of using a view has it's own problems. The biggest one to me is permissions. Do all database users have access to create a views? How will that work in Multisite?