diff --git a/installer/data/mysql/atomicupdate/bug_30889.pl b/installer/data/mysql/atomicupdate/bug_30889.pl
index d58a352f9c..5a5141dc51 100755
--- a/installer/data/mysql/atomicupdate/bug_30889.pl
+++ b/installer/data/mysql/atomicupdate/bug_30889.pl
@@ -2,14 +2,18 @@ use Modern::Perl;
 
 return {
     bug_number => "30889",
-    description => "Add context to background_jobs",
+    description => "Add calling context information to background_jobs",
     up => sub {
         my ($args) = @_;
         my ($dbh, $out) = @$args{qw(dbh out)};
 
         unless( column_exists( 'background_jobs', 'context') ) {
-            $dbh->do(q{ ALTER TABLE background_jobs ADD `context` longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL AFTER `data` });
-            say $out "field added";
+            $dbh->do(q{
+                ALTER TABLE background_jobs
+                    ADD `context` longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL
+                    COMMENT 'JSON-serialized context information for the job'
+                    AFTER `data`
+            });
         }
     },
 };
diff --git a/installer/data/mysql/kohastructure.sql b/installer/data/mysql/kohastructure.sql
index eee3fe4a8f..c1b20477dd 100644
--- a/installer/data/mysql/kohastructure.sql
+++ b/installer/data/mysql/kohastructure.sql
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ CREATE TABLE `background_jobs` (
   `type` varchar(64) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
   `queue` varchar(191) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT 'default' COMMENT 'Name of the queue the job is sent to',
   `data` longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
-  `context` longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
+  `context` longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL COMMENT 'JSON-serialized context information for the job',
   `enqueued_on` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
   `started_on` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
   `ended_on` datetime DEFAULT NULL,