Bug #98717 generated column causes mysqldump to create extremely big dump file
Submitted: 23 Feb 2020 14:57 Modified: 24 Feb 2020 5:37
Reporter: Christian Roser Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: mysqldump Command-line Client Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:5.7.x, 5.7.29 OS:Debian
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:x86
Tags: corruption, generated column, invalid data, mysqldump

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: