I am not much of a CGI programmer, but i know a bit about Database Client libraries, which is why i replied (that, and i'm opionated). I don't think there is a way to tell LOAD DATA INFILE to read from anything but a file. I guess you could use mknod to create a pipe, then fork a process to write to it while LOAD DATA INFILE is reading, but that might be a bit too complex a replacment for a write/load/delete temp file solution ... you make the call . Hope that helps.

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