Bug #72113 Manual does not explain "silent length reduction" for index prefix
Submitted: 24 Mar 2014 17:26 Modified: 18 Jun 2014 17:17
Reporter: Valeriy Kravchuk Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.5, 5.6 OS:Any
Assigned to: Daniel Price CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: innodb_large_prefix

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: