I agree that this is a big mess indeed and slows down the system drastically.
In the case of magentoerpconnect this could be overcome by redoing the whole system in EAV [1]. Thats quite a bit of work though but could solve other bugs [2].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-attribute-value_model [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/magentoerpconnect/+bug/648667
I agree that this is a big mess indeed and slows down the system drastically.
In the case of magentoerpconnect this could be overcome by redoing the whole system in EAV [1]. Thats quite a bit of work though but could solve other bugs [2].
[1] http:// en.wikipedia. org/wiki/ Entity- attribute- value_model /bugs.launchpad .net/magentoerp connect/ +bug/648667
[2] https:/