Manual:Protected titles table

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

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

pt_namespace
.

pt_title
.

pt_user
of user who protected the page title.

pt_reason
Protection comment.

pt_reason_id and the comment table should be used instead!

pt_reason_id
This is a foreign key to in the  table.

pt_timestamp
of when the protection action was taken

pt_expiry
Timestamp of when the protection expires

Schema summary
++-+--+-+-+---+ ++-+--+-+-+---+ ++-+--+-+-+---+ ++-+--+-+-+---+ ++-+--+-+-+---+ ++-+--+-+-+---+ ++-+--+-+-+---+ ++-+--+-+-+---+ ++-+--+-+-+---+ ++--+--+-+-+---+ ++--+--+-+-+---+ ++--+--+-+-+---+ ++--+--+-+-+---+ ++--+--+-+-+---+ ++--+--+-+-+---+
 * 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    |       |
 * 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    |       |
 * 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    |       |
 * 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    |       |
 * 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
 +--++--+--+--+---+-+--++--++-+---+ +--++--+--+--+---+-+--++--++-+---+ +--++--+--+--+---+-+--++--++-+---+
 * 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      |         |               |