Bug #86355 alter table that adds generated column and index crashes and deletes table
Submitted: 17 May 2017 13:02 Modified: 17 Jun 2017 17:00
Reporter: Marlin Forbes Email Updates:
Status: No Feedback Impact on me:
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Category:MySQL Server: DDL Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:5.7.16 OS:Red Hat (RDS backed so the OS is a guess)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: aws, RDS

File: Maximum allowed size is 50MB.
Description:
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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: