Bug #33986 Cannot ALTER a MERGE table that is differently defined from its children
Submitted: 22 Jan 2008 17:49
Reporter: Ingo Strüwing Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Merge storage engine Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.0, 5.1, 6.0 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: alter, merge

File: Maximum allowed size is 50MB.
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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.

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