Manual:Job table

Jobs performed by parallel apache threads or a command-line daemon.

"DESCRIBE mw_job" in MediaWiki 1.8 gives the following: +---+-+--+-+-++ +---+-+--+-+-++ +---+-+--+-+-++
 * Field        | Type            | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
 * job_id       | int(9) unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
 * job_cmd      | varchar(255)    | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
 * job_namespace | int(11)        | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * job_title    | varchar(255)    | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * job_params   | blob            | NO   |     | NULL    |                |

mysql> describe mw_job; +---+-+--+-+-++ +---+-+--+-+-++ +---+-+--+-+-++ 5 rows in set (0.03 sec)
 * Field        | Type            | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
 * job_id       | int(9) unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
 * job_cmd      | varchar(255)    | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
 * job_namespace | int(11)        | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * job_title    | varchar(255)    | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * job_params   | blob            | NO   |     | NULL    |                |

mysql> describe job; +---+--+--+-+-++ +---+--+--+-+-++ +---+--+--+-+-++ 5 rows in set (1.03 sec)
 * Field        | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
 * job_id       | int(10) unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
 * job_cmd      | varbinary(60)    | NO   | MUL |         |                |
 * job_namespace | int(11)         | NO   |     |         |                |
 * job_title    | varchar(255)     | NO   |     |         |                |
 * job_params   | blob             | NO   |     |         |                |