LOAD TABLE tbl_name FROM MASTER
This feature is deprecated and should be avoided. It is subject to removal in a future version of MySQL.
        Since the current implementation of LOAD DATA FROM
        MASTER and LOAD TABLE FROM MASTER
        is very limited, these statements are deprecated as of MySQL 4.1
        and removed in MySQL 5.5.
      
        The recommended alternative solution to using LOAD DATA
        FROM MASTER or LOAD TABLE FROM
        MASTER is using mysqldump or
        mysqlhotcopy. The latter requires Perl and
        two Perl modules (DBI and
        DBD:mysql) and works for
        MyISAM and ARCHIVE tables
        only. With mysqldump, you can create SQL
        dumps on the master and pipe (or copy) these to a
        mysql client on the slave. This has the
        advantage of working for all storage engines, but can be quite
        slow, since it works using
        SELECT.
      
        Transfers a copy of the table from the master to the slave. This
        statement is implemented mainly debugging LOAD DATA
        FROM MASTER operations. To use LOAD
        TABLE, the account used for connecting to the master
        server must have the RELOAD and
        SUPER privileges on the master
        and the SELECT privilege for the
        master table to load. On the slave side, the user that issues
        LOAD TABLE FROM MASTER must have privileges
        for dropping and creating the table.
      
        The conditions for LOAD DATA FROM MASTER
        apply here as well. For example, LOAD TABLE FROM
        MASTER works only for MyISAM
        tables. The timeout notes for LOAD DATA FROM
        MASTER apply as well.
      


User Comments
the the big bold red comment. In my experience:
Works ok from 4.x to 4.x and from 5.0.x to 5.0.x. But will not work at all if you load a table from 4 to 5. It will just create an empty table.
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