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We've been cleaning up database problems for the last four hours, thanks to a broken mysqldump
that wasn't sufficiently erroring out. We were getting these errors:
mysqldump: Error 2020: Got packet bigger than "max_allowed_packet" bytes when dumping table "search_dataset" at row: 68014
What the heck does that setting do? It's obviously not IP packet size, since I have it set to 32M now. Why does it exist?
Thanks for posting that. It seems to hint that "packet" means "IP packet." – Randolf Richardson – 2011-04-21T20:43:08.740
Great answer. I guess this is as close as I'm getting to a real answer. (I'm still pretty sure this isn't referring to IP packets. It doesn't mention IP anywhere, and I believe 65535 bytes is typically the real-world limit for even fragmented IP packets.) – Plutor – 2011-04-22T13:47:26.940