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Jun 9, 2012

This fixed an error I got when pulling a rails database from Heroku via taps:

command: heroku db:pull

error: MySQL server has gone away (Mysql::Error)

Fix: add the following to my.cnf file (location depends on OS):

[mysql]
max_allowed_packet=32M
[mysqld]
max_allowed_packet=32M

Link: Heroku Problem During Database Pull of Rails App: Mysql::Error MySQL server has gone away – Stack Overflow via stackoverflow.com