The table distTarget describes a collection of like data to be distributed.

mysql> select * from distTarget where dist_group = 'MD01' and stage = 'warp';  
+-----------+------------+---------+-------+-------+---------+---------+
| target_id | dist_group | filter  | stage | clean | state   | comment |
+-----------+------------+---------+-------+-------+---------+---------+
|       742 | MD01       | g.00000 | warp  |     0 | enabled | NULL    | 
|       744 | MD01       | i.00000 | warp  |     0 | enabled | NULL    | 
|       743 | MD01       | r.00000 | warp  |     0 | enabled | NULL    | 
|       746 | MD01       | y.00000 | warp  |     0 | enabled | NULL    | 
|       745 | MD01       | z.00000 | warp  |     0 | enabled | NULL    | 
+-----------+------------+---------+-------+-------+---------+---------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Targets are created by the disttool. For example the first target in the list above might have been created by the command

disttool -definetarget -dist_group MD01 -filter g.00000 -stage warp

Note: Until recently (2009-10-14) targets were specified by label. We decided that labels were too plentiful and wanted the flexibility to change them (for cleanup and update processing).