Why is WordPress saving full-urls to the database?

If there were only relative URLs, what would they be relative to? A post can be viewed in several different contexts, including a feed, and a WordPress install can move into a different directory relative to root. There are issues with doing it either way, absolute URLs just give you a more concrete starting point from which to make changes.

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