Bug #82913 manual should clarify storage requirements for variable length character sets
Submitted: 8 Sep 2016 21:49 Modified: 18 Oct 2016 17:55
Reporter: Morgan Tocker Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.7 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

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: