MySQL ERROR 1231 (42000):Variable 'character_set_client' can't be set to the value of 'NULL'

Question

I\'ve a MySQL 5.0.84 running in a Slackware 13.0 Staging server and wanted to copy a single table to another server which was built to use Ubuntu 1

Answer 1

Try to make the maximum allowed packet size arbitrarily high temporarily by typing in:

mysql> set global max_allowed_packet=10000000000;

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