Bug #52234 mysql tries to allocate 4294967296 bytes when fetching longtext via php-mysqli
Submitted: 19 Mar 2010 20:28 Modified: 25 Mar 2010 7:09
Reporter: Moritz Schönauer Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Data Types Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.1.44 OS:Linux (gentoo)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: allocate, longtext, mysqli, php, prepared

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: