Bug #3697 varchar(255) accepts longer data and trims it silently
Submitted: 9 May 2004 1:12 Modified: 11 May 2004 1:20
Reporter: Antoine Martin Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.0 OS:Linux (Linux 2.6.5 glibc 2.3.3)
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:

[9 May 2004 13:31] Antoine Martin
This doe snot seem to reproduce the bug... but it should!

Attachment: MySQLLongString.java (text/x-java), 2.58 KiB.