New subject: Upload log causes problems while importing cur dump

19 Apr 2004

Hi,

while importing the cur dump today I received this error message:

	Error: MySQL server has gone away

This error occurs regardless of whether I pipe the dump through mysql 
(the "usual" way), or use a Perl script to import it through DBI (what I 
usually use because it gives me a progress meter).

My investigation pin-pointed this to one particular line in the cur dump 
which contains an INSERT statement which is for the page 
[[Wikipedia:Upload log]]. The one row of data for this page is 1051409 
bytes.

So I'm wondering:

1) Why does that cause the above error message? Am I doing something
    wrong?
2) Do we have to have such a huge page? Can we circumvent this by
    splitting the page up?

Thanks,
Timwi