Bug #51640 mysqldump locks all tables across all databases although it shouldn't
Submitted: 2 Mar 2010 12:54 Modified: 3 Mar 2010 8:12
Reporter: Björn Wiberg Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: mysqldump Command-line Client Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0.90 OS:IBM AIX (5.3 TL8 SP1 (5300-08-01-0819))
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: mysqldump

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: