Bug #52742 When does ALTER TABLE require a table copy
Submitted: 11 Apr 2010 0:40 Modified: 1 May 2015 13:17
Reporter: Mark Callaghan Email Updates:
Status: Won't fix Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: DDL Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.1 OS:Any
Assigned to: Paul DuBois CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: alter, documentation, table

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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.

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