[Typo3-dev] database relations in TYPO3

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Christoph Koehler wrote:
> I was wondering why database relations made in the kickstarter are
> blobs  in the db table and not whatever type field the relation is. I
> find it  hard to work with blobs instead of just normal integers (I have
> a few  foreign keys to the fe_user table)

You cannot put multiple relations in int field. So, blog is for multiple
relations (though I would prefer text). And I think blog is used in case
of single relations just to simplify the code (i.e. handle all types of
relations in one place).

Dmitry.