LOAD DATA FROM MASTER
This feature is deprecated and should be avoided. It is subject to removal in a future version of MySQL.
        Since the current implementation of LOAD DATA FROM
        MASTER and LOAD TABLE FROM MASTER
        is very limited, these statements are deprecated as of MySQL 4.1
        and removed in MySQL 5.5.
      
        The recommended alternative solution to using LOAD DATA
        FROM MASTER or LOAD TABLE FROM
        MASTER is using mysqldump or
        mysqlhotcopy. The latter requires Perl and
        two Perl modules (DBI and
        DBD:mysql) and works for
        MyISAM and ARCHIVE tables
        only. With mysqldump, you can create SQL
        dumps on the master and pipe (or copy) these to a
        mysql client on the slave. This has the
        advantage of working for all storage engines, but can be quite
        slow, since it works using
        SELECT.
      
        This statement takes a snapshot of the master and copies it to
        the slave. It updates the values of
        MASTER_LOG_FILE and
        MASTER_LOG_POS so that the slave starts
        replicating from the correct position. Any table and database
        exclusion rules specified with the
        --replicate-*-do-* and
        --replicate-*-ignore-* options are honored.
        --replicate-rewrite-db is
        not taken into account because a user could
        use this option to set up a nonunique mapping such as
        --replicate-rewrite-db="db1->db3"
        and
        --replicate-rewrite-db="db2->db3",
        which would confuse the slave when loading tables from the
        master.
      
Use of this statement is subject to the following conditions:
            It works only for MyISAM tables.
            Attempting to load a non-MyISAM table
            results in the following error:
          
ERROR 1189 (08S01): Net error reading from master
It acquires a global read lock on the master while taking the snapshot, which prevents updates on the master during the load operation.
        If you are loading large tables, you might have to increase the
        values of net_read_timeout and
        net_write_timeout on both the
        master and slave servers. See
        Section 5.1.4, “Server System Variables”.
      
        Note that LOAD DATA FROM MASTER does
        not copy any tables from the
        mysql database. This makes it easy to have
        different users and privileges on the master and the slave.
      
        To use LOAD DATA FROM MASTER, the replication
        account that is used to connect to the master must have the
        RELOAD and
        SUPER privileges on the master
        and the SELECT privilege for all
        master tables you want to load. All master tables for which the
        user does not have the SELECT
        privilege are ignored by LOAD DATA FROM
        MASTER. This is because the master hides them from the
        user: LOAD DATA FROM MASTER calls
        SHOW DATABASES to know the master
        databases to load, but SHOW
        DATABASES returns only databases for which the user
        has some privilege. See Section 12.4.5.15, “SHOW DATABASES Syntax”. On the
        slave side, the user that issues LOAD DATA FROM
        MASTER must have privileges for dropping and creating
        the databases and tables that are copied.
      

User Comments
A behavior that me off the first time I set up replication using LOAD DATA FROM MASTER is that LOAD DATA FROM MASTER always says "0 rows affected" even if the database(s) have been successfully retrieved/updated.mm
LOAD DATA FROM MASTER, used as indicated above, does not work on 3.23.x. There is no Super_priv. FYI.
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