Manual:Revision comment temp table

Temporary table creating a relation between each row of the revision table and a row of the comment table.

It has been created to avoid blocking on an alter of the revision table.

On large wikis like the English Wikipedia, altering the revision table is a months-long process.

This table is being created to avoid such an alter, and will be merged back into revision in the future.

This table was introduced in .

See also the  table.

revcomment_rev
Key to 

revcomment_comment_id
Key to 

Schema summary
<tt>DESCRIBE revision_comment_temp;</tt> +---+-+--+-+-+---+ +---+-+--+-+-+---+ +---+-+--+-+-+---+
 * Field                | Type                | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
 * revcomment_rev       | int(10) unsigned    | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
 * revcomment_comment_id | bigint(20) unsigned | NO  | PRI | NULL    |       |