Bug #52805 max-allowed_packet confusion
Submitted: 14 Apr 2010 5:53 Modified: 14 Apr 2010 6:18
Reporter: Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.1.44 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: qc

File: Maximum allowed size is 50MB.
Description:
Privacy:

If the data you need to attach is more than 50MB, you should create a compressed archive of the data, split it to 50MB chunks, and upload each of them as a separate attachment.

To split a large file: