gpload error: unknown meta type 108 with send error message: line too long in file

Products

• VMware Tanzu Greenplum

Issue/Introduction

When running gpload, the following error is seen:

ERROR: gpfdist error: unknown meta type 108 (url_curl.c:1674) (seg0 slice1 xx.xx.xxxx:7000 pid=18219) 

Running gpload in very verbose mode reveals the following warning.

WARN [1:1:0:7] send error message: line too long in file /u01/Greenplum/dataloads/datafiles/PARTY_PROD_LOC_VW.csv near (8543487 bytes)

Environment

Product Version: 6.20

Resolution

Add the following to the gpload YAML file in the "Input" section:

- MAX_LINE_LENGTH: 256000000