Adding trackbacks after a post has been published?

In addition, if you save a post as a draft, and come back later, the trackbacks are gone as well.
I think it would be nice if the trackbacks were saved, and then only piged once the post is published (or edited).
TG

On my todo list, to do this right you need another field in the post table so there are a couple of steps involved. It’s coming though. ??

hrm…. what about a separate table all together, linked on the ID of the posting?
parse out the URLs when saving, and store with the post ID. Then when pinging, it should be simple call to the DB to get the list, roll through it and ping them.
Now I am questioning why do it that way.
The only thing I can come up with is that you then don’t run into a possible field size limitation. This would allow you to have a one (post) to many (trackbacks). But I could be way off as well.
TG

It’s not like we’re going to be doing selects on that information or anything, it’s probably going to be a text field in wp_posts with URIs seperated by newlines.

So just to clarify, not only is the ability to save trackback URI’s through saving drafts, but also to ping a trackback after the initial posting? I would imagine something like having two fields, one for saved and unpinged URI’s and one for saved and pinged URI’s, that way you could always list all the URI’s trackbacked and not reping them if you need to edit your post.