Manual:Page table

The page table can be considered the "core of the wiki". Each page in a MediaWiki installation has an entry here which identifies it by title and contains some essential metadata. It was first introduced in r6710, in MediaWiki 1.5.

The text of the page itself is stored in the  table. To retrieve the text of an article, MediaWiki first searches for page_title in the page table. Then, page_latest is used to search the  table for , and  is obtained in the process. The value obtained for  is used to search for <tvar|old_id></> in the text table to retrieve the text. When a page is deleted, the revisions are moved to the <tvar|archive></> table.

If you want to completely delete a page manually from the database, be sure to delete the entry for the page in the page table, and for all the page's revisions in the revision table, and all of the text rows corresponding only to the page in the text table. This can be done by deleting the page row, then running maintenance/deleteOrphanedRevisions.php. See also title 'Deleting pages with their relationships in text and revision tables' below how to do.

page_id
Uniquely identifying primary key. This value is preserved across edits, renames, and, as of MediaWiki 1.27, deletions, via an analogous field in the archive table (introduced in MediaWiki 1.11). For example, for this page, <tt>page_id = 10501</tt>. This field can be accessed by,  , etc.

page_namespace
A page name is broken into a namespace and a title. The namespace keys are UI-language-independent constants, defined in.

This field contains the number of the page's namespace. The values range from 0 to 15 for the standard namespaces, and from 100 to 2147483647 for custom namespaces.

page_title
The sanitized page title, without the namespace, with a maximum of 255 characters (binary). It is stored as text, with spaces replaced by underscores. The real title shown in articles is just this title with underscores (_) converted to spaces. For example, a page titled "Talk:Foo Bar" would have "Foo_Bar" in this field.

page_restrictions
Comma-separated set of permission keys indicating who can move or edit the page. Edit and move sections are separated by a colon (e.g., "edit=autoconfirmed,sysop:move=sysop").

Beginning with MediaWiki 1.10, page protection controls were moved to the page restrictions table, so this field will be empty in databases generated by more current versions of MediaWiki. However, this field is still used in current versions of MediaWiki for rows generated by older versions of MediaWiki!

page_counter
Number of times the page has been viewed. This feature was completely removed in MediaWiki 1.25, following a request for comment. Even before that, many sites including Wikimedia projects disabled it to increase performance; see the $wgDisableCounters global for details.

page_is_redirect
A value of <tt>1</tt> here indicates the article is a redirect; it is <tt>0</tt> in all other cases.

page_is_new
This field stores whether the page is a new, meaning it either has only one revision or has not been edited since being restored, even if there is more than one revision. If the field contains a value of <tt>1</tt>, then it indicates that the page is a new; otherwise, it is <tt>0</tt>. Rollback links are not displayed if the page is new, since there is nothing to roll back to.

page_random
Random decimal value, between 0 and 1, used for Special:Random (see Manual:Random page for more details). Generated by wfRandom.

page_touched
This timestamp is updated whenever the page changes in a way requiring it to be re-rendered, invalidating caches. Aside from editing, this includes permission changes, creation or deletion of linked pages, and alteration of contained templates. Set to $dbw->timestamp at the time of page creation.

page_links_updated
This timestamp is updated whenever a page is re-parsed and it has all the link tracking tables updated for it. This is useful for de-duplicating expensive backlink update jobs. Set to the default value of NULL when the page is created by WikiPage::insertOn.

page_latest
This is a foreign key to rev_id for the current revision. It may be 0 during page creation. It needs to link to a revision with a valid, or there will be the "The revision #0 of the page named 'Foo' does not exist" error when one tries to view the page. Can be obtained via.

page_len
Uncompressed length in bytes of the page's current source text.

This however, does not apply to images which still have records in this table. Instead, the uncompressed length in bytes of the <tt>description</tt> for the file is used as the latter is in the <tt>text.old_text</tt> field.

The <tt>Wikipage</tt> class in <tt>includes/WikiPage.php</tt> has two methods, viz., <tt>insertOn</tt> and <tt>updateRevisionOn</tt> that are responsible for populating these details.

page_content_model
Content model, see CONTENT_MODEL_XXX constants. Comparable to.

page_lang
Page content language. Set to the default value of NULL at the time of page creation.

Schema summary
MariaDB> describe page; ++-+--+-+++ ++-+--+-+++ ++-+--+-+++ 13 rows in set (0.00 sec)
 * Field             | Type                | Null | Key | Default        | Extra          |
 * page_id           | int(10) unsigned    | NO   | PRI | NULL           | auto_increment |
 * page_namespace    | int(11)             | NO   | MUL | NULL           |                |
 * page_title        | varbinary(255)      | NO   |     | NULL           |                |
 * page_restrictions | tinyblob            | NO   |     | NULL           |                |
 * page_counter      | bigint(20) unsigned | NO   |     | 0              |                |
 * page_is_redirect  | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO   | MUL | 0              |                |
 * page_is_new       | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO   |     | 0              |                |
 * page_random       | double unsigned     | NO   | MUL | NULL           |                |
 * page_touched      | binary(14)          | NO   |     |                |                |
 * page_latest       | int(10) unsigned    | NO   |     | NULL           |                |
 * page_len          | int(10) unsigned    | NO   | MUL | NULL           |                |
 * page_content_model | varbinary(32)      | YES  |     | NULL           |                |
 * page_links_updated | varbinary(14)      | YES  |     | NULL           |                |

mysql> describe page; ++-+--+-+++ ++-+--+-+++ ++-+--+-+++ 12 rows in set (0.00 sec)
 * Field             | Type                | Null | Key | Default        | Extra          |
 * page_id           | int(10) unsigned    | NO   | PRI | NULL           | auto_increment |
 * page_namespace    | int(11)             | NO   | MUL | NULL           |                |
 * page_title        | varbinary(255)      | NO   |     | NULL           |                |
 * page_restrictions | tinyblob            | NO   |     | NULL           |                |
 * page_counter      | bigint(20) unsigned | NO   |     | 0              |                |
 * page_is_redirect  | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO   | MUL | 0              |                |
 * page_is_new       | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO   |     | 0              |                |
 * page_random       | double unsigned     | NO   | MUL | NULL           |                |
 * page_touched      | binary(14)          | NO   |     |                |                |
 * page_latest       | int(10) unsigned    | NO   |     | NULL           |                |
 * page_len          | int(10) unsigned    | NO   | MUL | NULL           |                |
 * page_content_model | varbinary(32)      | YES  |     | NULL           |                |

+---+-+--+-+++ +---+-+--+-+++ +---+-+--+-+++
 * Field            | Type                | Null | Key | Default        | Extra          |
 * page_id          | int(10) unsigned    | NO   | PRI | NULL           | auto_increment |
 * page_namespace   | int(11)             | NO   | MUL | NULL           |                |
 * page_title       | varbinary(255)      | NO   |     | NULL           |                |
 * page_restrictions | tinyblob           | NO   |     | NULL           |                |
 * page_counter     | bigint(20) unsigned | NO   |     | 0              |                |
 * page_is_redirect | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO   | MUL | 0              |                |
 * page_is_new      | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO   |     | 0              |                |
 * page_random      | double unsigned     | NO   | MUL | NULL           |                |
 * page_touched     | binary(14)          | NO   |     |                |                |
 * page_latest      | int(10) unsigned    | NO   |     | NULL           |                |
 * page_len         | int(10) unsigned    | NO   | MUL | NULL           |                |

Wonder why the tinyint(1) flags <tt>page_is_redirect</tt> and <tt>page_is_new</tt> were lengthened to tinyint(3)!

+---+-+--+-+-++ +---+-+--+-+-++ +---+-+--+-+-++
 * Field                | Type                | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
 * page_id              | int(8) unsigned     | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
 * page_namespace       | int(11)             | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
 * page_title           | varchar(255)        | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * page_restrictions    | tinyblob            | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * page_counter         | bigint(20) unsigned | NO   |     | 0       |                |
 * page_is_redirect     | tinyint(1) unsigned | NO   |     | 0       |                |
 * page_is_new          | tinyint(1) unsigned | NO   |     | 0       |                |
 * page_random          | double unsigned     | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
 * page_touched         | char(14)            | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * page_latest          | int(8) unsigned     | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * page_len             | int(8) unsigned     | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |

<tt>DESCRIBE page;</tt> in MediaWiki 1.11 results in: +---+-+--+-+-++ +---+-+--+-+-++ +---+-+--+-+-++
 * Field                | Type                | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
 * page_id              | int(10) unsigned    | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
 * page_namespace       | int(11)             | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
 * page_title           | varchar(255)        | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * page_restrictions    | tinyblob            | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * page_counter         | bigint(20) unsigned | NO   |     | 0       |                |
 * page_is_redirect     | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO   |     | 0       |                |
 * page_is_new          | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO   |     | 0       |                |
 * page_random          | double unsigned     | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
 * page_touched         | binary(14)          | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * page_latest          | int(10) unsigned    | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
 * page_len             | int(10) unsigned    | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |

Indices
<pre style="overflow: auto;"> mysql> show index in page; +---++-+--+--+---+-+--++--++-+---+ +---++-+--+--+---+-+--++--++-+---+ +---++-+--+--+---+-+--++--++-+---+
 * Table | Non_unique | Key_name                   | Seq_in_index | Column_name      | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment |
 * page |          0 | PRIMARY                     |            1 | page_id          | A         |           1 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
 * page |          0 | name_title                  |            1 | page_namespace   | A         |           1 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
 * page |          0 | name_title                  |            2 | page_title       | A         |           1 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
 * page |          1 | page_random                 |            1 | page_random      | A         |           1 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
 * page |          1 | page_len                    |            1 | page_len         | A         |           1 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
 * page |          1 | page_redirect_namespace_len |            1 | page_is_redirect | A         |           1 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
 * page |          1 | page_redirect_namespace_len |            2 | page_namespace   | A         |           1 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |
 * page |          1 | page_redirect_namespace_len |            3 | page_len         | A         |           1 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               |

Listing pages and relations with other essential tables
The following code will select the most recent versions of all articles from core tables: [page, revision, text]:

Other important considerations:


 * to find undeleted pages add "r.rev_deleted = 0"
 * to find pages in namespace 0 add "p.page_namespace = 0"
 * to find pages that are not redirects add "p.page_is_redirect = 0"

These additional statements can be added either as conditions to a Where statement or as conditions on the appropriate Inner Join statement.

Deleting pages with their relationships in text and revision tables
The following shows the steps to run to help you delete pages and their children from the main pages in the page, revision and text tables.

Listing all related table keys

Deleting from database the rows

You should have a result set like this

<pre style="overflow:auto;"> +--+--+--+ +--+--+--+ +--+--+--+ 1 row in set (0.07 sec)
 * page                                            | revision                                         | text                                             |
 * IN(5530,5528,5529,5530,5529,5528,5532,5532,5532) | IN(9918,9921,9917,9919,9920,9916,9922,9915,9923) | IN(9918,9921,9917,9919,9920,9916,9922,9915,9923) |

Replace the concatenated id in the following query

After, you can do some cleanup using this maintenance script: