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I am trying to use one of composer packages called blasp but it gives me this error
SQLSTATE[08S01]: Communication link failure: 1153 Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes (Connection: mysql, SQL: insert into cache (expiration, key, value) what is causing this problem and how to solve it
Something is trying to write a large chunk of data to the cache, which exceeds the allowed packet size in MySQL.
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/packet-too-large.html
The database driver isn't very good for cache. The file driver is faster, and Redis is a lot faster and scalable. You should consider switching.
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