Bug #87589 Documentation incorrectly states that LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE does not use tmpdir
Submitted: 29 Aug 2017 18:05 Modified: 3 Aug 2018 22:04
Reporter: Geoff Montee Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.6.35, 5.7.19 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: DML, documentation, load, tmpdir

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: