MySQL Bugs: #40696: The CSV import routine intermitantly drops some characters.

Bug #40696	The CSV import routine intermitantly drops some characters.
Submitted:	13 Nov 2008 11:06	Modified:	24 Mar 2009 22:17
Reporter:	D Peters	Email Updates:
Status:	Not a Bug	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0.51a, 5.0.67, and 5.1.29-rc	OS:	Any (Knoppix 5.3 and OSX (10.5.5))
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:

On *nix platforms use the split command e.g. split -b 50MB <my_large_archive> <my_split_archive_prefix>
On windows use WinZip or a similar utility to split the large file

a python script which generates a SQL file from the CSV to populate the database

Attachment: processCSV.py (application/x-python, text), 2.43 KiB.

version info

Attachment: versionInfo (text/plain), 1.40 KiB.

a run log (one way to reproduce the problem)

Attachment: run-2.log (application/octet-stream, text), 10.03 KiB.