Manual:Comment table

Edits, blocks, and other actions typically have a textual comment describing the action.

They are stored in a separate table to reduce the size of the main tables, and to allow for de-duplication.

De-duplication is currently best-effort to avoid locking on inserts that would be required for strict de-duplication.

There may be multiple rows with the same  and .

This table was introduced in .

comment_id
Unique ID to identify each comment.

comment_hash
Hash of  and , for de-duplication.

comment_text
Text comment summarizing the change, e.g. an editor's 1>m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit summary|edit summary.

This text is shown in the 1>m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Page history|history and.

It is also used for, , , and, in the case of page creation, for the.

It is rendered in a sanitized subset of wiki markup by  .

Size limits are enforced at the application level, and should take care to crop UTF-8 strings appropriately.

comment_data
JSON data, intended for localizing auto-generated comments.

This holds structured data that is intended to be used to provide localized versions of automatically-generated comments.

When not empty,  should be the generated comment localized using the wiki's content language.