Manual:protected_titles table

MediaWiki database layout

protected_titles table

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.12

The protected_titles table contains Protection of non-existent pages. Restrictions on existing pages are stored in the page_restrictions table.

The list of protected pages can be found at Special:Protectedtitles.

Fields

pt_namespace

Namespace .

pt_title

Page title .

pt_user

User id of user who protected the page title.

pt_reason

MediaWiki version:

≤ 1.32

Protection comment.

(deprecated) pt_reason_id and the comment table should be used instead!

pt_reason_id

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.30

This is a foreign key to comment_id in the comment table.

pt_timestamp

Timestamp of when the protection action was taken

pt_expiry

Timestamp of when the protection expires

pt_create_perm

Protection level

Schema summary

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.36

DESCRIBE protected_titles;

+----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field          | Type                | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| pt_namespace   | int(11)             | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| pt_title       | varbinary(255)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| pt_user        | int(10) unsigned    | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| pt_reason_id   | bigint(20) unsigned | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| pt_timestamp   | binary(14)          | NO   | MUL | NULL    |       |
| pt_expiry      | varbinary(14)       | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| pt_create_perm | varbinary(60)       | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
+----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

MediaWiki versions:

1.33 – 1.35

DESCRIBE protected_titles;

+----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field          | Type                | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| pt_namespace   | int(11)             | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| pt_title       | varbinary(255)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| pt_user        | int(10) unsigned    | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| pt_reason_id   | bigint(20) unsigned | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| pt_timestamp   | binary(14)          | NO   | MUL | NULL    |       |
| pt_expiry      | varbinary(14)       | NO   |     |         |       |
| pt_create_perm | varbinary(60)       | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
+----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

MediaWiki versions:

1.30 – 1.32

DESCRIBE protected_titles;

+----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field          | Type                | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| pt_namespace   | int(11)             | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| pt_title       | varbinary(255)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| pt_user        | int(10) unsigned    | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| pt_reason      | varbinary(767)      | YES  |     |         |       |
| pt_reason_id   | bigint(20) unsigned | NO   |     | 0       |       |
| pt_timestamp   | binary(14)          | NO   | MUL | NULL    |       |
| pt_expiry      | varbinary(14)       | NO   |     |         |       |
| pt_create_perm | varbinary(60)       | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
+----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

MediaWiki versions:

1.25 – 1.29

DESCRIBE protected_titles;

+----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field          | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| pt_namespace   | int(11)          | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| pt_title       | varbinary(255)   | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| pt_user        | int(10) unsigned | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| pt_reason      | varbinary(767)   | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| pt_timestamp   | binary(14)       | NO   | MUL | NULL    |       |
| pt_expiry      | varbinary(14)    | NO   |     |         |       |
| pt_create_perm | varbinary(60)    | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
+----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

MediaWiki versions:

1.12 – 1.24

DESCRIBE protected_titles;

+----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field          | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| pt_namespace   | int(11)          | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| pt_title       | varbinary(255)   | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| pt_user        | int(10) unsigned | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| pt_reason      | tinyblob         | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| pt_timestamp   | binary(14)       | NO   | MUL | NULL    |       |
| pt_expiry      | varbinary(14)    | NO   |     |         |       |
| pt_create_perm | varbinary(60)    | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
+----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

Indexes

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.32

SHOW INDEX IN protected_titles;

+------------------+------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| Table            | Non_unique | Key_name     | Seq_in_index | Column_name  | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment |
+------------------+------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| protected_titles |          0 | PRIMARY      |            1 | pt_namespace | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
| protected_titles |          0 | PRIMARY      |            2 | pt_title     | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
| protected_titles |          1 | pt_timestamp |            1 | pt_timestamp | A         |           0 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
+------------------+------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+