[FIX] handling of big fields in CSV

fixes #2742

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/openerp/cli/server.py b/openerp/cli/server.py
index db0ab0699a1..f3932b4bf60 100644
--- a/openerp/cli/server.py
+++ b/openerp/cli/server.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ GNU Public Licence.
 """
 
 import atexit
+import csv
 import logging
 import os
 import signal
@@ -142,6 +143,11 @@ def main(args):
 
     config = openerp.tools.config
 
+    # the default limit for CSV fields in the module is 128KiB, which is not
+    # quite sufficient to import images to store in attachment. 500MiB is a
+    # bit overkill, but better safe than sorry I guess
+    csv.field_size_limit(500 * 1024 * 1024)
+
     if config["test_file"]:
         config["test_enable"] = True