Bug #72500 LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE doesn't seem to create file in /tmp as the manual claims?
Submitted: 1 May 2014 11:17 Modified: 11 Apr 2017 22:48
Reporter: Hartmut Holzgraefe Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:MySQL >= 5.5.36 OS:Linux
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: