Mysql – ERROR 1290 MYSQL secure-file-priv option

This looks oddly familiar.

I have seen this occur with one of my web hosting client's DB servers. There was a particular table that crashed mysqld every single time you accessed it, even with SHOW CREATE TABLE.

The problem stems from a corrupt data dictionary. There is really no way to correct it. You could attempt to alter the tablespace_id within the .ibd file but the headache stems from locating the tablespace_id list internal to ibdata1.

Even if you create a MyISAM table with the same name in the same database as the original InnoDB table, you cannot convert it to InnoDB because the tablespace_id is already associated with the table name. This, of course, is a corrupted state. It's like having a pidgeon hole in ibdata1 that you cannot patch up without some exploratory surgery.

You may have to mysqldump everything except the database that houses the corrupt table. You would then have to mysqldump every table in that database except the corrupt table. Remember, it is the data dictionary's view of the table that is screwed up, not necessarily the table's data.

The only sure way to clean everything up is to perform the mysqldumps as I just specified, shutdown mysql, rm -rf all DB folders except /var/lib/mytsql/mysql, delete ibdata1, delete ib_logfile0, delete ib_logfile1, startup mysql, reload all mysqldumps. See my StackOverflow post about cleaning up your InnoDB infrastructure.

Since you are not using innodb_file_per_table, any tables with this corrupt state of things within ibdata1 are lost as casualities of war. My condolences.

For future reference, click here to see an artistic conception of InnoDB and its Internals.

I am using MySQL Server 8.0 on Windows 10. I tried to load data from csv file using the following commands:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\Uploads\World_cup_dataset.csv'
INTO TABLE trial
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',';

When I run above commands, I got

"ERROR 1290 (HY000): The MySQL server is running with the --secure-file-priv option so it cannot execute this statement"

I tried many methods to solve the problem. Finally, I changed the '\' characters in the file path to '/' characters.

I mean my new file path became C:/ProgramData/MySQL/MySQL Server 8.0/Uploads/World_cup_dataset.csv and my problem were fixed. If you look at my.ini file located in the MySQL Server folder, the path of secure-file-priv is "C:/ProgramData/MySQL/MySQL Server 8.0/Uploads". So, this solution makes sense.