Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 2973

• You got a timeout from the TCP/IP connection on the client side. This may happen if you have
been using the commands:
mysql_options(...,
may help solve the problem.
• You have encountered a timeout on the server side and the automatic reconnection in the client is
disabled (the
reconnect
• You are using a Windows client and the server had dropped the connection (probably because
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wait_timeout
The problem on Windows is that in some cases MySQL does not get an error from the OS when
writing to the TCP/IP connection to the server, but instead gets the error when trying to read the
answer from the connection.
Prior to MySQL 5.0.19, even if the
does not automatically reconnect and re-issue the query as it doesn't know if the server did get the
original query or not.
The solution to this is to either do a
since the last query (this is what Connector/ODBC does) or set
server so high that it in practice never times out.
• You can also get these errors if you send a query to the server that is incorrect or too large. If
receives a packet that is too large or out of order, it assumes that something has gone
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wrong with the client and closes the connection. If you need big queries (for example, if you
are working with big
max_allowed_packet
increase the maximum packet size on the client end. More information on setting the packet size is
given in Section C.5.2.10, "Packet Too
An or
INSERT REPLACE
errors. Either one of these statements sends a single request to the server irrespective of the number
of rows to be inserted; thus, you can often avoid the error by reducing the number of rows sent per
or REPLACE.
INSERT
• You also get a lost connection if you are sending a packet 16MB or larger if your client is older than
4.0.8 and your server is 4.0.8 and above, or the other way around.
• It is also possible to see this error if host name lookups fail (for example, if the DNS server on which
your server or network relies goes down). This is because MySQL is dependent on the host system
for name resolution, but has no way of knowing whether it is working—from MySQL's point of view
the problem is indistinguishable from any other network timeout.
You may also see the
skip-networking
Another networking issue that can cause this error occurs if the MySQL port (default 3306) is blocked
by your firewall, thus preventing any connections at all to the MySQL server.
• You can also encounter this error with applications that fork child processes, all of which try to use
the same connection to the MySQL server. This can be avoided by using a separate connection for
each child process.
• You have encountered a bug where the server died while executing the query.
You can check whether the MySQL server died and restarted by executing
and examining the server's uptime. If the client connection was broken because
and restarted, you should concentrate on finding the reason for the crash. Start by checking whether
issuing the query again kills the server again. See
Crashing".
Common Errors When Using MySQL Programs
mysql_options(..., MYSQL_OPT_READ_TIMEOUT,...)
MYSQL_OPT_WRITE_TIMEOUT,...). In this case increasing the timeout
flag in the
MYSQL
expired) before the command was issued.
reconnect
mysql_ping()
columns), you can increase the query limit by setting the server's
BLOB
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Large".
statement that inserts a great many rows can also cause these sorts of
MySQL server has gone away
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structure is equal to 0).
flag in the structure is equal to 1, MySQL
MYSQL
on the connection if there has been a long time
wait_timeout
error if MySQL is started with the
Section C.5.4.2, "What to Do If MySQL Keeps
or
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crashed
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