Bug #33650 mysql_alter_table() unnecessarily does full table copy
Submitted: 3 Jan 2008 12:38 Modified: 10 May 2011 13:53
Reporter: Marko Mäkelä Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: DDL Severity:S5 (Performance)
Version:5.1.23-bk, 5.5.7 OS:Any
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:

[25 Feb 2008 10:36] Vasil Dimov
Patch that fixes this bug by calling create_length_to_internal_length() just before the is_equal() check

Attachment: bug33650.diff (application/octet-stream, text), 420 bytes.