[GNUe-dev] gnue_id, extending the existing DB tables

[Fehér János]

Hi,

I'm new on the list, but with some of You I've met on
IRC.

In the last two days I've tried to understand the GNUe.
In my view GNUe is a mature, stable system, with a good
API, but there are no really usable modules. Yesterday
I've started an article series for GNUe, the first one will
be called "Customer Care".

But first of all, I have question: why do you using string
type for gnue_id in the database layer? It's not very efficient
on most of the DBMS. They like integers for this, I really think
64bit unsigned integers are should be enough. What was the reason?

I've a second question: what do you think about to extending the
tables? I've talk about this with Kilo. I think, the "person" package
should be handle many other fields, like photos and other media files,
unlimited phone numbers, addresses, alarms (to warn for his/her 
birthday, or other anniversary) notes with timestamp etc. If you mind,
I'd like to implement it, because the above, I need a customer care 
module (package? what is the right terminus?) and many other.

Hm?
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