Bug #50286 Storage Requirements for CHAR incorrect
Submitted: 12 Jan 2010 18:16 Modified: 15 Jan 2010 12:49
Reporter: Leo Brown Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0, 5.1, 5.5.99 OS:Any
Assigned to: Paul DuBois 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: