Do I really have to live with that until dbDelta supports FOREIGN KEY?
Quite frankly, yes. But that’s the beauty of open source – anyone is welcome to post a patch!
However, expanding it to cover other aspects of schema design would almost certainly incur unwanted complexity & heighten the possibility of failure – something the core team will strongly consider beforehand.
I would take @xav0989’s advice – use dbDelta
for it’s intention (basic table implementation, column additions & adjustments), and handle the additional features with $wpdb
.
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