mysql probably does not have search permission on /home/alex.
copy the file to /tmp and see what happens.
Alex Safonov wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>just saw a message with an example of inserting a BLOB
>value using load_file(). Can't get load_file() to
>work:
>
>mysql> select load_file('/home/alex/post.html') from
>test;
>+-----------------------------------+
>| load_file('/home/alex/post.html') |
>+-----------------------------------+
>| NULL |
>+-----------------------------------+
>1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
>/home/alex/post.html exists, is small (~1k) and
>world-readable. load_file() still returns NULL. Same
>if I try to insert an existing file into a table.
>
>I am on Linux 2.4.10 (SuSE), MySQL 3.23.52.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions,
>
>
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