Issue
Question: How can we avoid errors of the following type with mysqlimport when the data file is in the current directory?
mysqlimport: Error: 13, Can’t get stat of
‘/var/lib/mysql/«dbname»/«tablename».txt’ (OS errno 2 – No such file
or directory), when using table: «tablename»
We are using MySQL version 8.0.28.
Background:
Our issue started with LOAD DATA INFILE giving the following error:
The MySQL server is running with the –secure-file-priv option so it
cannot execute this statement
This issue was resolved by following the tip from https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-solve-mysql-server-is-running-with-the-secure-file-priv-error/
Basically we edited the MySQL options file to set secure‐file‐priv = "".
Additionally we ensured that the owner and group of the file is set to mysql.
With these changes LOAD DATA INFILE is working like a charm. However, these changes have had no impact on mysqlimport.
mysqlimport gives the following error:
mysqlimport: Error: 13, Can’t get stat of
‘/var/lib/mysql/«dbname»/«tablename».txt’ (OS errno 2 – No such file
or directory), when using table: «tablename»
Solution
We were able to fix the problem by first enabling LOCAL capability for LOAD DATA
mysql> SET GLOBAL local_infile = TRUE;
After that we started invoking mysqlimport with --local option.
Answered By – Sandeep
Answer Checked By – Timothy Miller (BugsFixing Admin)