Improving performance and ipaddress tracking

[dwh]

If you are a large board and want to improve performance and track IPAddresses better, this hack could work for you, assuming someonedevelops it heheh. It's crazy to keep one IPAddress for every post.Other than the words table the post table is the largest and certainlythe most used. If you could pull ipaddress out of there that alonewould improve things a lot. Although it is a tiny bit useful to knowwhat IP Address was used for each post, it is pretty wasteful for atiny gain. If instead, you logged every UNIQUE ip address per usernamein a seperate table, it would be so much more useful. You couldactually track altip and IP (using one field only, two record if thetwo are different). So if a user has only ever used one ip and has10,000 posts, instead of clogging the post table with 10,000 duplicatepieces of data, it would appear only once in the ipaddress table.
Userid -> IPaddress.

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