MySQL statement length

[Roy Epperson]

I'm not finding what the maximum number of characters that a statement
can be. Anyone know where I can find that spec?

[Bill Karwin]

Roy Epperson wrote:

I'm not finding what the maximum number of characters that a statement
can be. Anyone know where I can find that spec?

I have found it hard to find this stat as well. I could not find a
definitive answer, but I believe the maximum length of a SQL statement
is 1MB.

It may be the case that the programming interface you use may impose a
shorter limit on the query length than that supported by the MySQL server.

Regards,
Bill K.

[Michael Austin]

Roy Epperson wrote:

I'm not finding what the maximum number of characters that a statement
can be. Anyone know where I can find that spec?

Are you having problems or just looking for some spec?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...too-large.html

" A communication packet is a single SQL statement sent to the MySQL server, a
single row that is sent to the client, or a binary log event sent from a master
replication server to a slave.

The largest possible packet that can be transmitted to or from a MySQL 5.0
server or client is 1GB."

The C API is limited appears to be 16Mb.

Is there some reason for creating a single statement that long?

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Michael Austin
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[Roy Epperson]

Thanks Bill, I suspect that JDBC will allow close to that....

Bill Karwin wrote:

Roy Epperson wrote:

>I'm not finding what the maximum number of characters that a statement
can be. Anyone know where I can find that spec?

I have found it hard to find this stat as well. I could not find a
definitive answer, but I believe the maximum length of a SQL statement
is 1MB.

It may be the case that the programming interface you use may impose a
shorter limit on the query length than that supported by the MySQL server.

Regards,
Bill K.

[Roy Epperson]

Michael,
Not having a problem and don't expect to if the JDBC limit is close to
the C API limit. I've using a `select * from aTable where columnName in
(<list_of_primary_keys>)` statement there the primary key is an
autonumber.
Roy

Michael Austin wrote:

Roy Epperson wrote:

>I'm not finding what the maximum number of characters that a statement
can be. Anyone know where I can find that spec?

Are you having problems or just looking for some spec?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...too-large.html

" A communication packet is a single SQL statement sent to the MySQL
server, a single row that is sent to the client, or a binary log event
sent from a master replication server to a slave.

The largest possible packet that can be transmitted to or from a MySQL
5.0 server or client is 1GB."

The C API is limited appears to be 16Mb.

Is there some reason for creating a single statement that long?