Manual:linktarget table

MediaWiki database layout

linktarget table

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.38

This table stores a page namespace-title tuples, each one with a unique integer ID. This table is used for referenced page titles in tables that track links to pages: templatelinks , pagelinks tables.

This table contains immutable rows, which means only new rows are inserted, and never deleted or updated during normal wiki operation. However, the pruneUnusedLinkTargetRows.php maintenance script can be run to delete unused entries.

Access to this table from code is handled by instances of the class MediaWiki\Linker\LinkTargetLookup interface.

During schema migration, this table is filled using the migrateLinksTable.php maintenance script. $wgTemplateLinksSchemaMigrationStage controls whether data is read/written to this table.

Fields

lt_id

Primary key.

lt_namespace

Namespace of the link target.

lt_title

Text part of link target excluding namespace.

Schema summary

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.38

DESCRIBE linktarget;

+--------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field        | Type                | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+--------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| lt_id        | bigint(20) unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| lt_namespace | int(11)             | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
| lt_title     | varbinary(255)      | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
+--------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

Indexes

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.38

Gerrit change 754989

SHOW INDEX IN linktarget;

+------------+------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| Table      | Non_unique | Key_name           | Seq_in_index | Column_name  | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment |
+------------+------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| linktarget |          0 | PRIMARY            |            1 | lt_id        | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
| linktarget |          0 | lt_namespace_title |            1 | lt_namespace | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
| linktarget |          0 | lt_namespace_title |            2 | lt_title     | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
+------------+------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+