Why can't I use LOAD DATA LOCAL with PDO even though I can from cli client?

Question

I recently upgraded my Ubuntu 10.04 dev server to 14.04. It is actually a fresh install. PHP version was 5.4.15, and is now PHP 5.5.9. MySQL went from 5.1.67 to 5.5.37.

Answer 1

Installing php5-mysqlnd to replace php5-mysql fixed the problem:

sudo apt-get install php5-mysqlnd

It will automatically remove php5-mysql.

I'm guessing this is a bug either in php5-mysql or the underlying libmysqlclient.