Bug #29405 SHOW CREATE TABLE needs a DATA lock, instead of METADATA
Submitted: 27 Jun 2007 23:57 Modified: 6 Aug 2007 9:12
Reporter: Marc ALFF Email Updates:
Status: Won't fix Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Locking Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0/5.1 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

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: