[Wikitech-l] Upload log causes problems while importing cur dump

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