Bug #38403 LOAD_FILE() function works as expected only on Windows
Submitted: 28 Jul 2008 12:42 Modified: 18 Aug 2008 13:34
Reporter: Harald Groven Email Updates:
Status: Can't repeat Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: General Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.1.24-rc-1 OS:Linux (Ubuntu 8)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: file, fileimport, import, loadfile

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: