Bug #36708 extreme fragmentation of a table with blob records
Submitted: 14 May 2008 6:45 Modified: 20 May 2008 17:55
Reporter: Shane Bester (Platinum Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: MyISAM storage engine Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0.60,5.1.24 OS:Any
Assigned to: Ingo Strüwing 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:

[14 May 2008 6:49] Shane Bester
testcase. run in two threads for a few hundred iterations

Attachment: bug36708.php (application/octet-stream, text), 1.84 KiB.

[4 Jun 2008 10:19] Ingo Strüwing
Commented log file of a test run, showing how record parts are treated by each SQL statement.

Attachment: bug36708-1.log (application/octet-stream, text), 323.77 KiB.