MySQL ERROR 1231 (42000):Variable 'character_set_client' can't be set to the value of 'NULL'

Question

I've a MySQL 5.0.84 running in a Slackware 13.0 Staging server and wanted to copy a single table to another server which was built to use Ubuntu 14.04 OS for some other testing. I've taken a mysqldump of that table and copied to the testing server. I get the following error when I try to restore the dump file.

ERROR 1231 (42000):Variable 'character_set_client' can't be set to the value of 'NULL'

Please help me how to fix this error. Thanks!

Answer 1

I did some search in internet and fixed it finally.

Added the following text at the beginning of the mysqldump file and the restore was successful.

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */; /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */; /*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */; /*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */; /*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */; /*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */; /*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */; /*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */; /*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */; /*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */; 

Answer 2

I have modified

/*!40101 SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client */; 

to

/*!40101 SET character_set_client = 'utf8' */; 

in the dump file after the code for creating table.