Bug #57320 Maximum width of row documented at 65,535 bytes is wrong
Submitted: 7 Oct 2010 16:47 Modified: 13 Jan 2011 15:51
Reporter: Kevin Benton Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.1.47 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: