Bug #43544 mysqldump should convert GEOMETRY columns to hex with --hex-blob option
Submitted: 10 Mar 2009 20:02 Modified: 28 Aug 2014 14:46
Reporter: Michael Newton Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: mysqldump Command-line Client Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 bzr OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: Contribution

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:

[22 Sep 2010 15:47] Michael Newton
patch against 5.0

Attachment: mysqldump-50.diff (application/octet-stream, text), 519 bytes.

[22 Sep 2010 15:48] Michael Newton
patch against 5.1

Attachment: mysqldump-51.diff (application/octet-stream, text), 519 bytes.

[22 Sep 2010 15:48] Michael Newton
patch against 5.5

Attachment: mysqldump-55.diff (application/octet-stream, text), 516 bytes.

[22 Sep 2010 15:48] Michael Newton
patch against trunk

Attachment: mysqldump-trunk.diff (application/octet-stream, text), 519 bytes.

[22 Sep 2010 15:49] Michael Newton
patch against 6.0

Attachment: mysqldump-60.diff (application/octet-stream, text), 519 bytes.

[27 Dec 2012 20:49] Martin Hradil
Adds --blob-geom to mysqldump which makes --hex-blob treat GEOMETRY fields as blobs

Attachment: mysql-blobgeom.patch (text/x-diff), 2.34 KiB.