Dan McDonald wrote:
I'm running a clean install of MySQL 4.0.16-nt on Windows XP SP2, with mediawiki 1.4.2 installed and working okay.
c:\WINDOWS\my.ini has the line: set-variable=max_allowed_packet=512M
Is this in the main or mysqld section? Make sure you haven't set this in the section for one of the supplementary tools.
Try issuing 'show variables' to make sure the value is correctly set. Note that you only need 16M, not 512M.
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