MySQL: Enable LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE

Question

I\'m running Mysql 5.5 on Ubuntu 12 LTS. How should I enable LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE in my.cnf?

I\'ve tried adding local-infile in my config at various places but I\'

Answer 1

This went a little weird for me, from one day to the next one the script that have been working since days just stop working. There wasn´t a newer version of mysql or any kind of upgrade but I was getting the same error, so I give a last try to the CSV file and notice that the end of lines were using \n instead of the expected ( per my script ) \r\n so I save it with the right EOL and run the script again without any trouble.

I think is kind of odd for mysql to tell me The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version since the reason was completely different.

My working command looks like this:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'file-name' IGNORE INTO TABLE table-name CHARACTER SET latin1 FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '\"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' IGNORE 1 LINES.