db scheme question...

[eluser]Teks[/eluser]
@crumpet: in most modern database implementations (SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL) there will be *very, very little* noticeable difference, even on very large data sets.

I would tend to use the table names, because once table names are set, I don't normally change them - it interferes with too much - and also, a few months from now, if I look at the data in the database I will understand what 'article', 'survey', 'news' means (but it would take me several minutes of code archaeology to figure out what '1', '2', 3' is supposed to mean...).