Manual:Protected titles table
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| 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
pt_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
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 | | | +------------------+------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+