I’m study how discourse was implemented, and I hope to understand each fields in schemas of discourse database, so that I can quickly know the meaning of things done by ruby codes.Is there a suite document for me?

The best source of schema information is probably the annotations at the bottom of fiiles in the app/models directory. For example, the posts table columns are app/models/post.rb e7bad9f05 # == Schema Information # # Table name: posts # # id :integer not null, primary key # user_id :integer # topic_id :integer not null # post_number :integer not null # raw :text not null # cooked :text not null # created_at :datetime not null # updated_at :datetime not null # reply_to_post_number :integer # reply_count :integer default(0), not null # quote_count :integer default(0), not null # deleted_at :datetime # off_topic_count :integer default(0), not null # like_count :integer default(0), not null # incoming_link_count :integer default(0), not null # bookmark_count :integer default(0), not null This file has been truncated. show original

Been a while here, but if you have the Data Explorer Plugin, you can also use the api to fetch everything: /admin/plugins/explorer/schema.json.

Is there a document introducing the database schema design?

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TallTrees November 30, 2020, 2:29pm 3

The Discourse Data Explorer might be worth a look too. It has the tables and columns listed out.

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Is there a document introducing the database schema design?

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