) TYPE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
+--
+-- Track links to external URLs
+--
+CREATE TABLE /*$wgDBprefix*/externallinks (
+ -- page_id of the referring page
+ el_from int(8) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
+
+ -- The URL
+ el_to blob NOT NULL default '',
+
+ -- In the case of HTTP URLs, this is the URL with any username or password
+ -- removed, and with the labels in the hostname reversed and converted to
+ -- lower case. An extra dot is added to allow for matching of either
+ -- example.com or *.example.com in a single scan.
+ -- Example:
+ -- http://user:password@sub.example.com/page.html
+ -- becomes
+ -- http://com.example.sub./page.html
+ -- which allows for fast searching for all pages under example.com with the
+ -- clause:
+ -- WHERE el_index LIKE 'http://com.example.%'
+ el_index blob NOT NULL default '',
+
+ KEY (el_from, el_to(40)),
+ KEY (el_to(60), el_from),
+ KEY (el_index(60))
+) TYPE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
+
--
-- Contains a single row with some aggregate info
-- on the state of the site.