Manual:Redirect table
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| MediaWiki version: | ≥ 1.9 |
The redirect table contains for each page that is currently a redirect (i.e., not for old revisions which are redirects) the ID of the source page and the information about target. The target page may or may not exist.
Fields
A target is broken into four parts: interwiki prefix (should be empty for a regular redirect), namespace, title and fragment.
rd_from
Contains the page_id of the source page.
rd_namespace
Contains the number of the target's Namespace.
rd_title
Contains the sanitized title of the target page. It is stored as text, with spaces replaced by underscores.
rd_interwiki
| MediaWiki version: | ≥ 1.16 |
This field is not empty only if an interwiki prefix is used: #REDIRECT [[prefix:…]] (a prefix such as "w:" for Wikipedia, or an interlanguage link prefix such as "nl:" for Dutch, but not both).
In this case a redirect is not visible in Special:WhatLinksHere (even if the target lies in the same wiki), rd_namespace is always 0 and rd_title may contain a possible namespace prefix, but rd_fragment may be non-NULL.
rd_fragment
Contains the target's fragment ID if present (see also bugzilla:218), otherwise is NULL.
Schema summary
| MediaWiki version: | ≥ 1.16 |
DESCRIBE redirect;
+--------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +--------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | rd_from | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | 0 | | | rd_namespace | int(11) | NO | MUL | 0 | | | rd_title | varbinary(255) | NO | | | | | rd_interwiki | varbinary(32) | YES | | NULL | | | rd_fragment | varbinary(255) | YES | | NULL | | +--------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| MediaWiki versions: | 1.10 – 1.15 |
DESCRIBE redirect;
+--------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +--------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | rd_from | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | 0 | | | rd_namespace | int(11) | NO | MUL | 0 | | | rd_title | varchar(255) binary | NO | | NULL | | +--------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| MediaWiki version: | 1.9 |
DESCRIBE redirect;
+--------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +--------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | rd_from | int(8) unsigned | NO | PRI | 0 | | | rd_namespace | int(11) | NO | MUL | 0 | | | rd_title | varchar(255) binary | NO | | NULL | | +--------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
Indexes
| MediaWiki version: | ≥ 1.9 |
SHOW INDEX IN redirect;
+----------+------------+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+ | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment | +----------+------------+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+ | redirect | 0 | PRIMARY | 1 | rd_from | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | | redirect | 1 | rd_ns_title | 1 | rd_namespace | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | | redirect | 1 | rd_ns_title | 2 | rd_title | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | | redirect | 1 | rd_ns_title | 3 | rd_from | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | +----------+------------+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+