Question

mysqldump: Error 2020: Got packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes when du mping table `wp_postmeta` at row: 7237

How to solve the below apache error

mysqldump: Error 2020: Got packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes when du mping table `wp_postmeta` at row: 7237

Submit an answer


This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

Sign In or Sign Up to Answer

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Bobby Iliev
Site Moderator
Site Moderator badge
November 12, 2019
Accepted Answer

Hello,

This does not look like an Apache error but an error form mysqldump. You could try running your export with the following flag:

mysqldump --max_allowed_packet=1G

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby

Try DigitalOcean for free

Click below to sign up and get $200 of credit to try our products over 60 days!

Sign up

Get our biweekly newsletter

Sign up for Infrastructure as a Newsletter.

Hollie's Hub for Good

Working on improving health and education, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth? We'd like to help.

Become a contributor

Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.

Welcome to the developer cloud

DigitalOcean makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.

Learn more
DigitalOcean Cloud Control Panel