Bug #12917 The --defaults-extra-file option is ignored by the 5.0 client binaries
Submitted: 31 Aug 2005 18:13 Modified: 9 Mar 2007 13:12
Reporter: Hartmut Holzgraefe Email Updates:
Status: Won't fix Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Command-line Clients Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.0, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2 OS:Linux (linux)
Assigned to: 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: