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This is the same as the "don't use aliases but instead tablename_id for Id fields because at 3am this will help you" type of argument (a real one, unfortunately) you should not model things around exceptions.


and... if debugging live code on production machines at 3am is the norm, you've got much bigger problems than table prefixes.




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