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MySQL Connector/J is an implementation of Sun's JDBC 3.0 API for the MySQL relational database server. It strives to conform as much as possible to the JDBC API as specified by JavaSoft. It is known to work with many third-party products, including:
Application Servers
Object Relational Mapping Tools
Development Environments
MySQL AB tries to keep the upgrade process as easy as possible, however as is the case with any software, sometimes changes need to be made in new versions to support new features, improve existing functionality, or comply with new standards.
This section has information about what users who are upgrading from one version of Connector/J to another (or to a new version of the MySQL server, with respect to JDBC functionality) should be aware of.
Connector/J 3.1 is designed to be backwards-compatible with Connector/J 3.0 as much as possible. Major changes are isolated to new functionality exposed in MySQL-4.1 and newer, which includes Unicode character sets, server-side prepared statements, SQLState codes returned in error messages by the server and various performance enhancements that can be enabled or disabled via configuration properties.
Unicode Character Sets - See the next section, as well as the "Character Sets" section in the server manual for information on this new feature of MySQL. If you have something misconfigured, it will usually show up as an error with a message similar to 'Illegal mix of collations'.
Server-side prepared statements - The driver tries to maintain transparency between the two implementations (emulated and server-side). The only large divergence is with the re-execution of PreparedStatement with LOB parameters, when a parameter that was previously bound as a LOB has been re-bound as a non-LOB type. For server-side prepared statements, this requires all parameters to be re-bound before execution of the statement. See the next section for further details.
New SQLState Codes - Connector/J 3.1 uses SQL:1999 SQLState codes returned by the MySQL server (if supported), which are different than the "legacy" X/Open state codes that Connector/J 3.0 uses. If connected to a MySQL server older than MySQL-4.1.0 (the oldest version to return SQLStates as part of the error code), the driver will use a built-in mapping. You can revert to the old mapping by using the following configuration property:
useSqlStateCodes=false
Using the UTF-8 Character Encoding - Prior to MySQL server version 4.1, the UTF-8 character encoding was not supported by the server, however the JDBC driver could use it, allowing storage of multiple character sets in latin1 tables on the server.
Starting with MySQL-4.1, this functionality is deprecated. If you have applications that rely on this functionality, and can not upgrade them to use the official Unicode character support in MySQL server version 4.1 or newer, you should add the following property to your connection URL:
useOldUTF8Behavior=true
Server-side Prepared Statements - Connector/J 3.1 will automatically detect and use server-side prepared statements when they are available (MySQL server version 4.1.0 and newer).
Starting with version 3.1.7, the driver scans SQL you are preparing via all variants of Connection.prepareStatement() to determine if it is a supported type of statement to prepare on the server side, and if it is not supported by the server, it instead prepares it as a client-side emulated prepared statement. You can disable this feature by passing 'emulateUnsupportedPstmts=false' in your JDBC URL.
If your application encounters issues with server-side prepared statements, you can revert to the older client-side emulated prepared statement code that is still presently used for MySQL servers older than 4.1.0 with the following connection property:
useServerPrepStmts=false
MySQL Connector/J passes all of the tests in Sun's JDBC compliance testsuite except for tests requiring stored procedures (which MySQL does not have at this time). However, in many places the JDBC specification is vague about how certain functionality should be implemented, or the specification allows leeway in implementation.
This section gives details on a interface-by-interface level about how certain implementation decisions may affect how you use MySQL Connector/J.
Blob
The Blob implementation does not allow in-place modification (they are 'copies', as reported by the DatabaseMetaData.locatorsUpdateCopies() method). Because of this, you should use the corresponding PreparedStatement.setBlob() or ResultSet.updateBlob() (in the case of updatable result sets) methods to save changes back to the database.
Starting with Connector/J version 3.1.0, you can emulate Blobs with locators by adding the property 'emulateLocators=true' to your JDBC URL. You must then use a column alias with the value of the column set to the actual name of the Blob column in the SELECT that you write to retrieve the Blob. The SELECT must also reference only one table, the table must have a primary key, and the SELECT must cover all columns that make up the primary key. The driver will then delay loading the actual Blob data until you retrieve the Blob and call retrieval methods (getInputStream(), getBytes(), etc) on it.
CallableStatement
Starting with Connector/J 3.1.1, stored procedures are supported when connecting to MySQL version 5.0 or newer via the CallableStatement interface. Currently, the getParameterMetaData() method of CallableStatement is not supported.
Clob
The Clob implementation does not allow in-place modification (they are 'copies', as reported by the DatabaseMetaData.locatorsUpdateCopies() method). Because of this, you should use the PreparedStatement.setClob() method to save changes back to the database. The JDBC API does not have a ResultSet.updateClob() method.
Connection
Unlike older versions of MM.MySQL the 'isClosed()' method does not "ping" the server to determine if it is alive. In accordance with the JDBC specification, it only returns true if 'closed()' has been called on the connection. If you need to determine if the connection is still valid, you should issue a simple query, such as "SELECT 1". The driver will throw an exception if the connection is no longer valid.
DatabaseMetaData
Foreign Key information (getImported/ExportedKeys() and getCrossReference()) is only available from 'InnoDB'-type tables. However, the driver uses 'SHOW CREATE TABLE' to retrieve this information, so when other table types support foreign keys, the driver will transparently support them as well.
Driver
PreparedStatement
PreparedStatements are implemented by the driver, as MySQL does not have a prepared statement feature. Because of this, the driver does not implement getParameterMetaData() or getMetaData() as it would require the driver to have a complete SQL parser in the client.
Starting with version 3.1.0 MySQL Connector/J, server-side prepared statements and 'binary-encoded' result sets are used when the server supports them.
Take care when using a server-side prepared statement with "large" parameters that are set via setBinaryStream(), setAsciiStream(), setUnicodeStream(), setBlob(), or setClob(). If you want to re-execute the statement with any "large" parameter changed to a non-"large" parameter, it is necessary to call clearParameters() and set all parameters again. The reason for this is as follows:
The driver streams the 'large' data 'out-of-band' to the prepared statement on the server side when the parameter is set (before execution of the prepared statement).
Once that has been done, the stream used to read the data on the client side is closed (as per the JDBC spec), and can't be read from again.
If a parameter changes from "large" to non-"large", the driver must reset the server-side state of the prepared statement to allow the parameter that is being changed to take the place of the prior "large" value. This removes all of the 'large' data that has already been sent to the server, thus requiring the data to be re-sent, via the setBinaryStream(), setAsciiStream(), setUnicodeStream(), setBlob() or setClob() methods.
Consequently, if you want to change the "type" of a parameter to a non-"large" one, you must call clearParameters() and set all parameters of the prepared statement again before it can be re-executed.
ResultSet
By default, ResultSets are completely retrieved and stored in memory. In most cases this is the most efficient way to operate, and due to the design of the MySQL network protocol is easier to implement. If you are working with ResultSets that have a large number of rows or large values, and can not allocate heap space in your JVM for the memory required, you can tell the driver to 'stream' the results back one row at-a-time.
To enable this functionality, you need to create a Statement instance in the following manner:
stmt = conn.createStatement(java.sql.ResultSet.TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY, java.sql.ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY); stmt.setFetchSize(Integer.MIN_VALUE);The combination of a forward-only, read-only result set, with a fetch size of Integer.MIN_VALUE serves as a signal to the driver to "stream" result sets row-by-row. After this any result sets created with the statement will be retrieved row-by-row.
There are some caveats with this approach. You will have to read all of the rows in the result set (or close it) before you can issue any other queries on the connection, or an exception will be thrown. Also, any tables referenced by the query that created the streaming result will be locked until all of the results have been read or the connection closed.
ResultSetMetaData
The 'isAutoIncrement()' method only works when using MySQL servers 4.0 and newer.
Statement
The following methods in the JDBC API have not been implemented yet. They rely on functionality that at this time is not present in the MySQL server:
Blob.truncate()
Connection.setSavePoint() is not supported in versions earlier than 3.1.1
Connection.prepareCall(String) is not supported in versions earlier than 3.1.1
Connection.releaseSavepoint(Savepoint) is not supported in versions earlier than 3.1.1
Connection.rollback(Savepoint) is not supported in versions earlier than 3.1.1
PreparedStatement.setArray(int, Array)
PreparedStatement.setRef()
PreparedStatement.getParameterMetaData()
ResultSet.getArray(int)
ResultSet.getArray(colName)
ResultSet.getRef(int)
ResultSet.getRef(String)
ResultSet.rowDeleted()
ResultSet.rowInserted()
ResultSet.rowUpdated()
ResultSet.updateArray(int, Array)
ResultSet.updateArray(String, Array)
ResultSet.updateRef(int, Ref)
ResultSet.updateRef(String, Ref)
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This chapter contains instructions for installing the MySQL Connector/J drivers on Microsoft Windows and UNIX platforms. If you are on another platform that supports Java and the JDBC API then substitute commands appropriate for your system.
MySQL Connector/J supports Java-2 JVMs, including JDK-1.2.x, JDK-1.3.x, JDK-1.4.x and JDK-1.5.x, and requires JDK-1.4.x or newer to compile (but not run). MySQL Connector/J does not support JDK-1.1.x or JDK-1.0.x
Because of the implementation of java.sql.Savepoint, Connector/J 3.1.0 and newer will not run on JDKs older than 1.4 unless the class verifier is turned off (-Xverify:none), as the class verifier will try to load the class definition for java.sql.Savepoint even though it is not accessed by the driver unless you actually use savepoint functionality.
MySQL Connector/J supports all known MySQL server versions. Some features (foreign keys, updatable result sets) require more recent versions of MySQL to operate.
When connecting to MySQL server version 4.1 or newer, it is best to use MySQL Connector/J version 3.1, as it has full support for features in the newer versions of the server, including Unicode characters, views, stored procedures and server-side prepared statements.
While Connector/J version 3.0 will connect to MySQL server, version 4.1 or newer, and implements Unicode characters and the new authorization mechanism, Connector/J 3.0 will not be updated to support new features in current and future server versions.
MySQL Connector/J is distributed as a .zip or .tar.gz archive containing the sources, the class files and a class-file only "binary" .jar archive named "mysql-connector-java-[version]-bin.jar". You will need to use the appropriate gui or command-line utility to un-archive the distribution (for example, WinZip for the .zip archive, and "tar" for the .tar.gz archive).
Once you have un-archived the distribution archive, you can install the driver in one of two ways: Either copy the "com" and "org" subdirectories and all of their contents to anywhere you like, and put the directory holding the "com" and "org" subdirectories in your classpath, or put mysql-connector-java-[version]-bin.jar in your classpath, either by adding the FULL path to it to your CLASSPATH enviornment variable, or by copying the .jar file to $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext. If you are going to use the driver with the JDBC DriverManager, you would use "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" as the class that implements java.sql.Driver.
Example 2.1. Setting the CLASSPATH Under UNIX
The following command works for 'csh' under UNIX:
$ setenv CLASSPATH /path/to/mysql-connector-java-[version]-bin.jar:$CLASSPATH
The above command can be added to the appropriate startup file for the login shell to make MySQL Connector/J available to all Java applications.
Example 2.2. Setting the CLASSPATH Under Microsoft Windows 9X
The following is an example of setting the CLASSPATH under Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME:
C:\> set CLASSPATH=\path\to\mysql-connector-java-[version]-bin.jar;%CLASSPATH%
This command can be added as the last line in AUTOEXEC.BAT. If this is done the MySQL Connector/J driver will be made available to all Java applications that run on the Windows 9x system. This setting will require the computer to be rebooted before the changes will take effect.
The name of the class that implements java.sql.Driver in MySQL Connector/J is 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'. The 'org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver' class name is also usable to remain backwards-compatible with MM.MySQL. You should use this class name when registering the driver, or when otherwise configuring software to use MySQL Connector/J.
The JDBC URL format for MySQL Connector/J is as follows, with items in square brackets ([, ]) being optional:
jdbc:mysql://[host][,failoverhost...][:port]/[database][?propertyName1][=propertyValue1][&propertyName2][=propertyValue2]...
If the hostname is not specified, it defaults to '127.0.0.1'. If the port is not specified, it defaults to '3306', the default port number for MySQL servers.
Starting with version 3.0.12 and 3.1.2, Connector/J supports multiple hosts with ports, separated by commas:
jdbc:mysql://[host:port],[host:port].../[database][?propertyName1][=propertyValue1][&propertyName2][=propertyValue2]...
If the database is not specified, the connection will be made with no 'current' database. In this case, you will need to either call the 'setCatalog()' method on the Connection instance, issue a 'USE dbname' query or fully-specify table names using the database name (i.e. 'SELECT dbname.tablename.colname FROM dbname.tablename...') in your SQL. Not specifying the database to use upon connection is generally only useful when building tools that work with multiple databases, such as GUI database managers.
MySQL Connector/J has fail-over support. This allows the driver to fail-over to any number of "slave" hosts and still perform read-only queries. Fail-over only happens when the connection is in an autoCommit(true) state, because fail-over can not happen reliably when a transaction is in progress. Most good application servers and connection pools set autoCommit to 'true' at the end of every transaction/connection use. The fail-over functionality has the following behavior: If the URL property "autoReconnect" is false: Failover only happens at connection initialization, and failback occurs when the driver determines that the first host has become available again If the URL property "autoReconnect" is true: Failover happens when the driver determines that the connection has failed (before every query), and falls back to the first host when it determines that the host has become available again (after queriesBeforeRetryMaster queries have been issued). In either case, whenever you are connected to a "failed-over" server, the connection will be set to read-only state, so queries that would modify data will have exceptions thrown (the query will never be processed by the MySQL server).
You may specify additional properties to the JDBC driver, either by placing them in a java.util.Properties instance and passing that instance to the DriverManager when you connect, or by adding them to the end of your JDBC URL as name-value pairs. The first property needs to be preceeded with a '?' character, and additional name-value pair properties are separated by an '&' character. The properties, their definitions and their default values are covered in the following table:
Table 2.1. Connection Properties
Property Name | Definition | Required? | Default Value | Since Version |
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Connection/Authentication | ||||
user | The user to connect as | No | all | |
password | The password to use when connecting | No | all | |
socketFactory | The name of the class that the driver should use for creating socket connections to the server. This class must implement the interface 'com.mysql.jdbc.SocketFactory' and have public no-args constructor. | No | com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory | 3.0.3 |
connectTimeout | Timeout for socket connect (in milliseconds), with 0 being no timeout. Only works on JDK-1.4 or newer. Defaults to '0'. | No | 0 | 3.0.1 |
socketTimeout | Timeout on network socket operations (0, the default means no timeout). | No | 0 | 3.0.1 |
useConfigs | Load the comma-delimited list of configuration properties before parsing the URL or applying user-specified properties. These configurations are explained in the 'Configurations' of the documentation. | No | 3.1.5 | |
interactiveClient | Set the CLIENT_INTERACTIVE flag, which tells MySQL to timeout connections based on INTERACTIVE_TIMEOUT instead of WAIT_TIMEOUT | No | false | 3.1.0 |
propertiesTransform | An implementation of com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionPropertiesTransform that the driver will use to modify URL properties passed to the driver before attempting a connection | No | 3.1.4 | |
useCompression | Use zlib compression when communicating with the server (true/false)? Defaults to 'false'. | No | false | 3.1.0 |
High Availability and Clustering | ||||
autoReconnect | Should the driver try to re-establish bad connections? | No | false | 1.1 |
autoReconnectForPools | Use a reconnection strategy appropriate for connection pools (defaults to 'false') | No | false | 3.1.3 |
failOverReadOnly | When failing over in autoReconnect mode, should the connection be set to 'read-only'? | No | true | 3.0.12 |
maxReconnects | Maximum number of reconnects to attempt if autoReconnect is true, default is '3'. | No | 3 | 1.1 |
initialTimeout | If autoReconnect is enabled, the initial time to wait between re-connect attempts (in seconds, defaults to '2'). | No | 2 | 1.1 |
queriesBeforeRetryMaster | Number of queries to issue before falling back to master when failed over (when using multi-host failover). Whichever condition is met first, 'queriesBeforeRetryMaster' or 'secondsBeforeRetryMaster' will cause an attempt to be made to reconnect to the master. Defaults to 50. | No | 50 | 3.0.2 |
secondsBeforeRetryMaster | How long should the driver wait, when failed over, before attempting to reconnect to the master server? Whichever condition is met first, 'queriesBeforeRetryMaster' or 'secondsBeforeRetryMaster' will cause an attempt to be made to reconnect to the master. Time in seconds, defaults to 30 | No | 30 | 3.0.2 |
Security | ||||
allowMultiQueries | Allow the use of ';' to delimit multiple queries during one statement (true/false, defaults to 'false' | No | false | 3.1.1 |
useSSL | Use SSL when communicating with the server (true/false), defaults to 'false' | No | false | 3.0.2 |
requireSSL | Require SSL connection if useSSL=true? (defaults to 'false'). | No | false | 3.1.0 |
allowUrlInLocalInfile | Should the driver allow URLs in 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE' statements? | No | false | 3.1.4 |
paranoid | Take measures to prevent exposure sensitive information in error messages and clear data structures holding sensitive data when possible? (defaults to 'false') | No | false | 3.0.1 |
Performance Extensions | ||||
metadataCacheSize | The number of queries to cacheResultSetMetadata for if cacheResultSetMetaData is set to 'true' (default 50) | No | 50 | 3.1.1 |
prepStmtCacheSize | If prepared statement caching is enabled, how many prepared statements should be cached? | No | 25 | 3.0.10 |
prepStmtCacheSqlLimit | If prepared statement caching is enabled, what's the largest SQL the driver will cache the parsing for? | No | 256 | 3.0.10 |
alwaysSendSetIsolation | Should the driver always communicate with the database when Connection.setTransactionIsolation() is called? If set to false, the driver will only communicate with the database when the requested transaction isolation is different than the whichever is newer, the last value that was set via Connection.setTransactionIsolation(), or the value that was read from the server when the connection was established. | No | true | 3.1.7 |
cacheCallableStmts | Should the driver cache the parsing stage of CallableStatements | No | false | 3.1.2 |
cachePrepStmts | Should the driver cache the parsing stage of PreparedStatements? | No | false | 3.0.10 |
cacheResultSetMetadata | Should the driver cache ResultSetMetaData for Statements and PreparedStatements? (Req. JDK-1.4+, true/false, default 'false') | No | false | 3.1.1 |
cacheServerConfiguration | Should the driver cache the results of 'SHOW VARIABLES' and 'SHOW COLLATION' on a per-URL basis? | No | false | 3.1.5 |
dontTrackOpenResources | The JDBC specification requires the driver to automatically track and close resources, however if your application doesn't do a good job of explicitly calling close() on statements or result sets, this can cause memory leakage. Setting this property to true relaxes this constraint, and can be more memory efficient for some applications. | No | false | 3.1.7 |
dynamicCalendars | Should the driver retrieve the default calendar when required, or cache it per connection/session? | No | false | 3.1.5 |
elideSetAutoCommits | If using MySQL-4.1 or newer, should the driver only issue 'set autocommit=n' queries when the server's state doesn't match the requested state by Connection.setAutoCommit(boolean)? | No | false | 3.1.3 |
holdResultsOpenOverStatementClose | Should the driver close result sets on Statement.close() as required by the JDBC specification? | No | false | 3.1.7 |
useFastIntParsing | Use internal String->Integer conversion routines to avoid excessive object creation? | No | true | 3.1.4 |
useLocalSessionState | Should the driver refer to the internal values of autocommit and transaction isolation that are set by Connection.setAutoCommit() and Connection.setTransactionIsolation(), rather than querying the database? | No | false | 3.1.7 |
useNewIO | Should the driver use the java.nio.* interfaces for network communication (true/false), defaults to 'false' | No | false | 3.1.0 |
useReadAheadInput | Use newer, optimized non-blocking, buffered input stream when reading from the server? | No | true | 3.1.5 |
Debuging/Profiling | ||||
logger | The name of a class that implements 'com.mysql.jdbc.log.Log' that will be used to log messages to.(default is 'com.mysql.jdbc.log.StandardLogger', which logs to STDERR) | No | com.mysql.jdbc.log.StandardLogger | 3.1.1 |
profileSQL | Trace queries and their execution/fetch times to the configured logger (true/false) defaults to 'false' | No | false | 3.1.0 |
profileSql | Deprecated, use 'profileSQL' instead. Trace queries and their execution/fetch times on STDERR (true/false) defaults to 'false' | No | 2.0.14 | |
maxQuerySizeToLog | Controls the maximum length/size of a query that will get logged when profiling or tracing | No | 2048 | 3.1.3 |
packetDebugBufferSize | The maximum number of packets to retain when 'enablePacketDebug' is true | No | 20 | 3.1.3 |
slowQueryThresholdMillis | If 'logSlowQueries' is enabled, how long should a query (in ms) before it is logged as 'slow'? | No | 2000 | 3.1.2 |
useUsageAdvisor | Should the driver issue 'usage' warnings advising proper and efficient usage of JDBC and MySQL Connector/J to the log (true/false, defaults to 'false')? | No | false | 3.1.1 |
dumpQueriesOnException | Should the driver dump the contents of the query sent to the server in the message for SQLExceptions? | No | false | 3.1.3 |
enablePacketDebug | When enabled, a ring-buffer of 'packetDebugBufferSize' packets will be kept, and dumped when exceptions are thrown in key areas in the driver's code | No | false | 3.1.3 |
explainSlowQueries | If 'logSlowQueries' is enabled, should the driver automatically issue an 'EXPLAIN' on the server and send the results to the configured log at a WARN level? | No | false | 3.1.2 |
logSlowQueries | Should queries that take longer than 'slowQueryThresholdMillis' be logged? | No | false | 3.1.2 |
traceProtocol | Should trace-level network protocol be logged? | No | false | 3.1.2 |
Miscellaneous | ||||
useUnicode | Should the driver use Unicode character encodings when handling strings? Should only be used when the driver can't determine the character set mapping, or you are trying to 'force' the driver to use a character set that MySQL either doesn't natively support (such as UTF-8), true/false, defaults to 'true' | No | false | 1.1g |
characterEncoding | If 'useUnicode' is set to true, what character encoding should the driver use when dealing with strings? (defaults is to 'autodetect') | No | 1.1g | |
characterSetResults | Character set to tell the server to return results as. | No | 3.0.13 | |
connectionCollation | If set, tells the server to use this collation via 'set connection_collation' | No | 3.0.13 | |
allowNanAndInf | Should the driver allow NaN or +/- INF values in PreparedStatement.setDouble()? | No | false | 3.1.5 |
autoDeserialize | Should the driver automatically detect and de-serialize objects stored in BLOB fields? | No | false | 3.1.5 |
capitalizeTypeNames | Capitalize type names in DatabaseMetaData? (usually only useful when using WebObjects, true/false, defaults to 'false') | No | false | 2.0.7 |
clobberStreamingResults | This will cause a 'streaming' ResultSet to be automatically closed, and any oustanding data still streaming from the server to be discarded if another query is executed before all the data has been read from the server. | No | false | 3.0.9 |
continueBatchOnError | Should the driver continue processing batch commands if one statement fails. The JDBC spec allows either way (defaults to 'true'). | No | true | 3.0.3 |
emulateLocators | N/A | No | false | 3.1.0 |
emulateUnsupportedPstmts | Should the driver detect prepared statements that are not supported by the server, and replace them with client-side emulated versions? | No | true | 3.1.7 |
ignoreNonTxTables | Ignore non-transactional table warning for rollback? (defaults to 'false'). | No | false | 3.0.9 |
jdbcCompliantTruncation | Should the driver throw java.sql.DataTruncation exceptions when data is truncated as is required by the JDBC specification when connected to a server that supports warnings(MySQL 4.1.0 and newer)? | No | true | 3.1.2 |
maxRows | The maximum number of rows to return (0, the default means return all rows). | No | -1 | all versions |
noDatetimeStringSync | Don't ensure that ResultSet.getDatetimeType().toString().equals(ResultSet.getString()) | No | false | 3.1.7 |
pedantic | Follow the JDBC spec to the letter. | No | false | 3.0.0 |
relaxAutoCommit | If the version of MySQL the driver connects to does not support transactions, still allow calls to commit(), rollback() and setAutoCommit() (true/false, defaults to 'false')? | No | false | 2.0.13 |
rollbackOnPooledClose | Should the driver issue a rollback() when the logical connection in a pool is closed? | No | true | 3.0.15 |
runningCTS13 | Enables workarounds for bugs in Sun's JDBC compliance testsuite version 1.3 | No | false | 3.1.7 |
serverTimezone | Override detection/mapping of timezone. Used when timezone from server doesn't map to Java timezone | No | 3.0.2 | |
strictFloatingPoint | Used only in older versions of compliance test | No | false | 3.0.0 |
strictUpdates | Should the driver do strict checking (all primary keys selected) of updatable result sets (true, false, defaults to 'true')? | No | true | 3.0.4 |
tinyInt1isBit | Should the driver treat the datatype TINYINT(1) as the BIT type (because the server silently converts BIT -> TINYINT(1) when creating tables)? | No | true | 3.0.16 |
ultraDevHack | Create PreparedStatements for prepareCall() when required, because UltraDev is broken and issues a prepareCall() for _all_ statements? (true/false, defaults to 'false') | No | false | 2.0.3 |
useHostsInPrivileges | Add '@hostname' to users in DatabaseMetaData.getColumn/TablePrivileges() (true/false), defaults to 'true'. | No | true | 3.0.2 |
useOldUTF8Behavior | Use the UTF-8 behavior the driver did when communicating with 4.0 and older servers | No | false | 3.1.6 |
useOnlyServerErrorMessages | Don't prepend 'standard' SQLState error messages to error messages returned by the server. | No | true | 3.0.15 |
useServerPrepStmts | Use server-side prepared statements if the server supports them? (defaults to 'true'). | No | true | 3.1.0 |
useSqlStateCodes | Use SQL Standard state codes instead of 'legacy' X/Open/SQL state codes (true/false), default is 'true' | No | true | 3.1.3 |
useStreamLengthsInPrepStmts | Honor stream length parameter in PreparedStatement/ResultSet.setXXXStream() method calls (true/false, defaults to 'true')? | No | true | 3.0.2 |
useTimezone | Convert time/date types between client and server timezones (true/false, defaults to 'false')? | No | false | 3.0.2 |
useUnbufferedInput | Don't use BufferedInputStream for reading data from the server | No | true | 3.0.11 |
zeroDateTimeBehavior | What should happen when the driver encounters DATETIME values that are composed entirely of zeroes (used by MySQL to represent invalid dates)? Valid values are 'exception', 'round' and 'convertToNull'. | No | exception | 3.1.4 |
Connector/J also supports access to MySQL via named pipes on Windows NT/2000/XP using the 'NamedPipeSocketFactory' as a plugin-socket factory via the 'socketFactory' property. If you don't use a 'namedPipePath' property, the default of '\\.\pipe\MySQL' will be used. If you use the NamedPipeSocketFactory, the hostname and port number values in the JDBC url will be ignored.
Adding the following property to your URL will enable the NamedPipeSocketFactory:
socketFactory=com.mysql.jdbc.NamedPipeSocketFactory
Named pipes only work when connecting to a MySQL server on the same physical machine as the one the JDBC driver is being used on. In simple performance tests, it appears that named pipe access is between 30%-50% faster than the standard TCP/IP access.
You can create your own socket factories by following the example code in com.mysql.jdbc.NamedPipeSocketFactory, or com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.
If you want to use MySQL Connector/J with a servlet engine or application server such as Tomcat or JBoss, you will have to read your vendor's documentation for more information on how to configure third-party class libraries, as most application servers ignore the CLASSPATH environment variable.
If you are developing servlets and/or JSPs, and your application server is J2EE-compliant, you should put the driver's .jar file in the WEB-INF/lib subdirectory of your webapp, as this is the standard location for third party class libraries in J2EE web applications.
You can also use the MysqlDataSource or MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource classes in the com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional package, if your J2EE application server supports or requires them. The various MysqlDataSource classes support the following parameters (through standard "set" mutators):
user
password
serverName (see the previous section about fail-over hosts)
databaseName
port
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When you are using JDBC outside of an application server, the DriverManager class manages the establishment of Connections.
The DriverManager needs to be told which JDBC drivers it should try to make Connections with. The easiest way to do this is to use Class.forName() on the class that implements the java.sql.Driver interface. With MySQL Connector/J, the name of this class is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. With this method, you could use an external configuration file to supply the driver class name and driver parameters to use when connecting to a database.
Example 3.1. Registering the Driver With the DriverManager
The following section of Java code shows how you might register MySQL Connector/J from the main() method of your application.
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.SQLException; // Notice, do not import com.mysql.jdbc.* // or you will have problems! public class LoadDriver { public static void main(String[] args) { try { // The newInstance() call is a work around for some // broken Java implementations Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance(); } catch (Exception ex) { // handle the error } }
After the driver has been registered with the DriverManager, you can obtain a Connection instance that is connected to a particular database by calling DriverManager.getConnection():
Example 3.2. Obtaining a Connection From the DriverManager
This example shows how you can obtain a Connection instance from the DriverManager. There are a few different signatures for the getConnection() method. You should see the API documentation that comes with your JDK for more specific information on how to use them.
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.SQLException; ... try { Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/test?user=monty&password=greatsqldb"); // Do something with the Connection .... } catch (SQLException ex) { // handle any errors System.out.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage()); System.out.println("SQLState: " + ex.getSQLState()); System.out.println("VendorError: " + ex.getErrorCode()); }
Once a Connection is established, it can be used to create Statements and PreparedStatements, as well as retrieve metadata about the database. This is explained in the following sections.
Statements allow you to execute basic SQL queries and retrieve the results through the ResultSet class which is described later. To get a Statement object, you call the createStatement() method on the Connection object you have retrieved via the DriverManager.getConnection() method. Once you have a Statement object, you can execute a SELECT query by calling the executeQuery(String SQL) method with the SQL you want to use. To update data in the database use the executeUpdate(String SQL) method. This method returns the number of rows affected by the update statement. If you don't know ahead of time whether the SQL statement will be a SELECT or an UPDATE/INSERT, then you can use the execute(String SQL) method. This method will return true if the SQL query was a SELECT, or false if an UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE query. If the query was a SELECT query, you can retrieve the results by calling the getResultSet() method. If the query was an UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE query, you can retrieve the affected rows count by calling getUpdateCount() on the Statement instance.
Example 3.3. Using java.sql.Statement to Execute a SELECT Query
// assume conn is an already created JDBC connection Statement stmt = null; ResultSet rs = null; try { stmt = conn.createStatement(); rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT foo FROM bar"); // or alternatively, if you don't know ahead of time that // the query will be a SELECT... if (stmt.execute("SELECT foo FROM bar")) { rs = stmt.getResultSet(); } // Now do something with the ResultSet .... } finally { // it is a good idea to release // resources in a finally{} block // in reverse-order of their creation // if they are no-longer needed if (rs != null) { try { rs.close(); } catch (SQLException sqlEx) { // ignore } rs = null; } if (stmt != null) { try { stmt.close(); } catch (SQLException sqlEx) { // ignore } stmt = null; } }
All strings sent from the JDBC driver to the server are converted automatically from native Java Unicode form to the client character encoding, including all queries sent via Statement.execute(), Statement.executeUpdate(), Statement.executeQuery() as well as all PreparedStatement and CallableStatement parameters with the exclusion of parameters set using setBytes(), setBinaryStream(), setAsiiStream(), setUnicodeStream() and setBlob().
Prior to MySQL Server 4.1, Connector/J supported a single character encoding per connection, which could either be automatically detected from the server configuration, or could be configured by the user through the useUnicode and characterEncoding properties.
Starting with MySQL Server 4.1, Connector/J supports a single character encoding between client and server, and any number of character encodings for data returned by the server to the client in ResultSets.
The character encoding between client and server is automatically detected upon connection. The encoding used by the driver is specified on the server via the configuration variable 'character_set' for server versions older than 4.1.0 and 'character_set_server' for server versions 4.1.0 and newer. See the "Server Character Set and Collation" section in the MySQL server manual for more information.
To override the automatically-detected encoding on the client side, use the characterEncoding property in the URL used to connect to the server.
When specifying character encodings on the client side, Java-style names should be used. The following table lists Java-style names for MySQL character sets:
Table 3.1. MySQL to Java Encoding Name Translations
MySQL Character Set Name | Java-Style Character Encoding Name |
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usa7 | US-ASCII |
big5 | Big5 |
gbk | GBK |
sjis | SJIS |
gb2312 | EUC_CN |
ujis | EUC_JP |
euc_kr | EUC_KR |
latin1 | ISO8859_1 |
latin1_de | ISO8859_1 |
german1 | ISO8859_1 |
danish | ISO8859_1 |
latin2 | ISO8859_2 |
czech | ISO8859_2 |
hungarian | ISO8859_2 |
croat | ISO8859_2 |
greek | ISO8859_7 |
hebrew | ISO8859_8 |
latin5 | ISO8859_9 |
latvian | ISO8859_13 |
latvian1 | ISO8859_13 |
estonia | ISO8859_13 |
dos | Cp437 |
pclatin2 | Cp852 |
cp866 | Cp866 |
koi8_ru | KOI8_R |
tis620 | TIS620 |
win1250 | Cp1250 |
win1250ch | Cp1250 |
win1251 | Cp1251 |
cp1251 | Cp1251 |
win1251ukr | Cp1251 |
cp1257 | Cp1257 |
macroman | MacRoman |
macce | MacCentralEurope |
utf8 | UTF-8 |
ucs2 | UnicodeBig |
Do not issue the query 'set names' with Connector/J, as the driver will not detect that the character set has changed, and will continue to use the character set detected during the initial connection setup.
To allow multiple character sets to be sent from the client, the "UTF-8" encoding should be used, either by configuring "utf8" as the default server character set, or by configuring the JDBC driver to use "UTF-8" through the characterEncoding property.
Starting with MySQL 5.0 and Connector/J 3.1.1, the java.sql.CallableStatement interface is fully implemented with the exception of the getParameterMetaData() method.
MySQL's stored procedure syntax is documented in the "Stored Procedures and Functions" section of the MySQL Reference Manual.
Connector/J exposes stored procedure functionality through JDBC's CallableStatement interface.
The following example shows a stored procedure that returns the value of inOutParam incremented by 1, and the string passed in via inputParam as a ResultSet:
Example 3.4. Stored Procedure Example
CREATE PROCEDURE demoSp(IN inputParam VARCHAR(255), INOUT inOutParam INT) BEGIN DECLARE z INT; SET z = inOutParam + 1; SET inOutParam = z; SELECT inputParam; SELECT CONCAT('zyxw', inputParam); END
To use the demoSp procedure with Connector/J, follow these steps:
Prepare the callable statement by using Connection.prepareCall().
Notice that you have to use JDBC escape syntax, and that the parentheses surrounding the parameter placeholders are not optional:
Example 3.5. Using Connection.prepareCall()
import java.sql.CallableStatement; ... // // Prepare a call to the stored procedure 'demoSp' // with two parameters // // Notice the use of JDBC-escape syntax ({call ...}) // CallableStatement cStmt = conn.prepareCall("{call demoSp(?, ?)}"); cStmt.setString(1, "abcdefg");
Connection.prepareCall() is an expensive method, due to the metadata retrieval that the driver performs to support output parameters. For performance reasons, you should try to minimize unnecessary calls to Connection.prepareCall() by reusing CallableStatement instances in your code.
Register the output parameters (if any exist)
To retrieve the values of output parameters (parameters specified as OUT or INOUT when you created the stored procedure), JDBC requires that they be specified before statement execution using the various registerOutputParameter() methods in the CallableStatement interface:
Example 3.6. Registering Output Parameters
import java.sql.Types; ... // // Connector/J supports both named and indexed // output parameters. You can register output // parameters using either method, as well // as retrieve output parameters using either // method, regardless of what method was // used to register them. // // The following examples show how to use // the various methods of registering // output parameters (you should of course // use only one registration per parameter). // // // Registers the second parameter as output // cStmt.registerOutParameter(2); // // Registers the second parameter as output, and // uses the type 'INTEGER' for values returned from // getObject() // cStmt.registerOutParameter(2, Types.INTEGER); // // Registers the named parameter 'inOutParam' // cStmt.registerOutParameter("inOutParam"); // // Registers the named parameter 'inOutParam', and // uses the type 'INTEGER' for values returned from // getObject() // cStmt.registerOutParameter("inOutParam", Types.INTEGER); ...
Set the input parameters (if any exist)
Input and in/out parameters are set as for PreparedStatement objects. However, CallableStatement also supports setting parameters by name:
Example 3.7. Setting CallableStatement Input Parameters
... // // Set a parameter by index // cStmt.setString(1, "abcdefg"); // // Alternatively, set a parameter using // the parameter name // cStmt.setString("inputParameter", "abcdefg"); // // Set the 'in/out' parameter using an index // cStmt.setInt(2, 1); // // Alternatively, set the 'in/out' parameter // by name // cStmt.setInt("inOutParam", 1); ...
Execute the CallableStatement, and retrieve any result sets or output parameters.
While CallableStatement supports calling any of the Statement execute methods (executeUpdate(), executeQuery() or execute()), the most flexible method to call is execute(), as you do not need to know ahead of time if the stored procedure returns result sets:
Example 3.8. Retrieving Results and Output Parameter Values
... boolean hadResults = cStmt.execute(); // // Process all returned result sets // while (hadResults) { ResultSet rs = cStmt.getResultSet(); // process result set ... hadResults = cStmt.getMoreResults(); } // // Retrieve output parameters // // Connector/J supports both index-based and // name-based retrieval // int outputValue = cStmt.getInt(1); // index-based outputValue = cStmt.getInt("inOutParam"); // name-based ...
SSL in MySQL Connector/J encrypts all data (other than the initial handshake) between the JDBC driver and the server. The performance penalty for enabling SSL is an increase in query processing time between 35% and 50%, depending on the size of the query, and the amount of data it returns.
For SSL Support to work, you must have the following:
A JDK that includes JSSE (Java Secure Sockets Extension), like JDK-1.4.1 or newer. SSL does not currently work with a JDK that you can add JSSE to, like JDK-1.2.x or JDK-1.3.x due to the following JSSE bug: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4273544.html
A MySQL server that supports SSL and has been compiled and configured to do so, which is MySQL-4.0.4 or later, see: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Secure_connections.html
A client certificate (covered later in this section)
You will first need to import the MySQL server CA Certificate into a Java truststore. A sample MySQL server CA Certificate is located in the 'SSL' subdirectory of the MySQL source distribution. This is what SSL will use to determine if you are communicating with a secure MySQL server.
To use Java's 'keytool' to create a truststore in the current directory , and import the server's CA certificate ('cacert.pem'), you can do the following (assuming that'keytool' is in your path. It's located in the 'bin' subdirectory of your JDK or JRE):
shell> keytool -import -alias mysqlServerCACert -file cacert.pem -keystore truststore
Keytool will respond with the following information:
Enter keystore password: ********* Owner: EMAILADDRESS=walrus@example.com, CN=Walrus, O=MySQL AB, L=Orenburg, ST=Some -State, C=RU Issuer: EMAILADDRESS=walrus@example.com, CN=Walrus, O=MySQL AB, L=Orenburg, ST=Som e-State, C=RU Serial number: 0 Valid from: Fri Aug 02 16:55:53 CDT 2002 until: Sat Aug 02 16:55:53 CDT 2003 Certificate fingerprints: MD5: 61:91:A0:F2:03:07:61:7A:81:38:66:DA:19:C4:8D:AB SHA1: 25:77:41:05:D5:AD:99:8C:14:8C:CA:68:9C:2F:B8:89:C3:34:4D:6C Trust this certificate? [no]: yes Certificate was added to keystore
You will then need to generate a client certificate, so that the MySQL server knows that it is talking to a secure client:
shell> keytool -genkey -keyalg rsa -alias mysqlClientCertificate -keystore keystore
Keytool will prompt you for the following information, and create a keystore named 'keystore' in the current directory.
You should respond with information that is appropriate for your situation:
Enter keystore password: ********* What is your first and last name? [Unknown]: Matthews What is the name of your organizational unit? [Unknown]: Software Development What is the name of your organization? [Unknown]: MySQL AB What is the name of your City or Locality? [Unknown]: Flossmoor What is the name of your State or Province? [Unknown]: IL What is the two-letter country code for this unit? [Unknown]: US Is <CN=Matthews, OU=Software Development, O=MySQL AB, L=Flossmoor, ST=IL, C=US> correct? [no]: y Enter key password for <mysqlClientCertificate> (RETURN if same as keystore password):
Finally, to get JSSE to use the keystore and truststore that you have generated, you need to set the following system properties when you start your JVM, replacing 'path_to_keystore_file' with the full path to the keystore file you created, 'path_to_truststore_file' with the path to the truststore file you created, and using the appropriate password values for each property.
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=path_to_keystore_file -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=********* -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=path_to_truststore_file -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=*********
You will also need to set 'useSSL' to 'true' in your connection parameters for MySQL Connector/J, either by adding 'useSSL=true' to your URL, or by setting the property 'useSSL' to 'true' in the java.util.Properties instance you pass to DriverManager.getConnection().
You can test that SSL is working by turning on JSSE debugging (as detailed below), and look for the following key events:
... *** ClientHello, v3.1 RandomCookie: GMT: 1018531834 bytes = { 199, 148, 180, 215, 74, 12, 54, 244, 0, 168, 55, 103, 215, 64, 16, 138, 225, 190, 132, 153, 2, 217, 219, 239, 202, 19, 121, 78 } Session ID: {} Cipher Suites: { 0, 5, 0, 4, 0, 9, 0, 10, 0, 18, 0, 19, 0, 3, 0, 17 } Compression Methods: { 0 } *** [write] MD5 and SHA1 hashes: len = 59 0000: 01 00 00 37 03 01 3D B6 90 FA C7 94 B4 D7 4A 0C ...7..=.......J. 0010: 36 F4 00 A8 37 67 D7 40 10 8A E1 BE 84 99 02 D9 6...7g.@........ 0020: DB EF CA 13 79 4E 00 00 10 00 05 00 04 00 09 00 ....yN.......... 0030: 0A 00 12 00 13 00 03 00 11 01 00 ........... main, WRITE: SSL v3.1 Handshake, length = 59 main, READ: SSL v3.1 Handshake, length = 74 *** ServerHello, v3.1 RandomCookie: GMT: 1018577560 bytes = { 116, 50, 4, 103, 25, 100, 58, 202, 79, 185, 178, 100, 215, 66, 254, 21, 83, 187, 190, 42, 170, 3, 132, 110, 82, 148, 160, 92 } Session ID: {163, 227, 84, 53, 81, 127, 252, 254, 178, 179, 68, 63, 182, 158, 30, 11, 150, 79, 170, 76, 255, 92, 15, 226, 24, 17, 177, 219, 158, 177, 187, 143} Cipher Suite: { 0, 5 } Compression Method: 0 *** %% Created: [Session-1, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA] ** SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA [read] MD5 and SHA1 hashes: len = 74 0000: 02 00 00 46 03 01 3D B6 43 98 74 32 04 67 19 64 ...F..=.C.t2.g.d 0010: 3A CA 4F B9 B2 64 D7 42 FE 15 53 BB BE 2A AA 03 :.O..d.B..S..*.. 0020: 84 6E 52 94 A0 5C 20 A3 E3 54 35 51 7F FC FE B2 .nR..\ ..T5Q.... 0030: B3 44 3F B6 9E 1E 0B 96 4F AA 4C FF 5C 0F E2 18 .D?.....O.L.\... 0040: 11 B1 DB 9E B1 BB 8F 00 05 00 .......... main, READ: SSL v3.1 Handshake, length = 1712 ...
JSSE provides debugging (to STDOUT) when you set the following system property: -Djavax.net.debug=all This will tell you what keystores and truststores are being used, as well as what is going on during the SSL handshake and certificate exchange. It will be helpful when trying to determine what is not working when trying to get an SSL connection to happen.
The normal place to report bugs is http://bugs.mysql.com/, which is the address for our bugs database. This database is public, and can be browsed and searched by anyone. If you log in to the system, you will also be able to enter new reports.
If you have found a sensitive security bug in MySQL, you can send email to security@mysql.com Writing a good bug report takes patience, but doing it right the first time saves time both for us and for yourself. A good bug report, containing a full test case for the bug, makes it very likely that we will fix the bug in the next release. This section will help you write your report correctly so that you don't waste your time doing things that may not help us much or at all.
If you have a repeatable bug report, please report it to the bugs database at http://bugs.mysql.com/. Any bug that we are able to repeat has a high chance of being fixed in the next MySQL release. To report other problems, you can use one of the MySQL mailing lists. Remember that it is possible for us to respond to a message containing too much information, but not to one containing too little. People often omit facts because they think they know the cause of a problem and assume that some details don't matter. A good principle is this: If you are in doubt about stating something, state it. It is faster and less troublesome to write a couple more lines in your report than to wait longer for the answer if we must ask you to provide information that was missing from the initial report. The most common errors made in bug reports are (a) not including the version number of Connector/J or MySQL used, and (b) not fully describing the platform on which Connector/J is installed (including the JVM version, and the platform type and version number that MySQL itself is installed on). This is highly relevant information, and in 99 cases out of 100, the bug report is useless without it. Very often we get questions like, ``Why doesn't this work for me?'' Then we find that the feature requested wasn't implemented in that MySQL version, or that a bug described in a report has already been fixed in newer MySQL versions. Sometimes the error is platform-dependent; in such cases, it is next to impossible for us to fix anything without knowing the operating system and the version number of the platform.
If at all possible, you should create a repeatable, stanalone testcase that doesn't involve any third-party classes.
To streamline this process, we ship a base class for testcases with Connector/J, named 'com.mysql.jdbc.util.BaseBugReport'. To create a testcase for Connector/J using this class, create your own class that inherits from com.mysql.jdbc.util.BaseBugReport and override the methods setUp(), tearDown() and runTest().
In the setUp() method, create code that creates your tables, and populates them with any data needed to demonstrate the bug.
In the runTest() method, create code that demonstrates the bug using the tables and data you created in the 'setUp' method.
In the tearDown() method, drop any tables you created in the setUp() method.
In any of the above three methods, you should use one of the variants of the getConnection() method to create a JDBC connection to MySQL:
getConnection() - Provides a connection to the JDBC URL specified in getUrl(). If a connection already exists, that connection is returned, otherwise a new connection is created.
getNewConnection() - Use this if you need to get a new connection for your bug report (i.e. there's more than one connection involved).
getConnection(String url) - Returns a connection using the given URL.
getConnection(String url, Properties props) - Returns a connection using the given URL and properties.
Use the assertTrue(boolean expression) and assertTrue(String failureMessage, boolean expression) methods to create conditions that must be met in your testcase demonstrating the behavior you are expecting (vs. the behavior you are observing, which is why you are most likely filing a bug report).
Finally, create a main() method that creates a new instance of your testcase, and calls the run method:
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { new MyBugReport().run(); }Once you have finished your testcase, and have verified that it demonstrates the bug you are reporting, upload it with your bug report to http://bugs.mysql.com/.
There are a few issues that seem to be commonly encountered often by users of MySQL Connector/J. This section deals with their symptoms, and their resolutions. If you have further issues, see the "SUPPORT" section.
5.1. | When I try to connect to the database with MySQL Connector/J, I get the following exception: SQLException: Server configuration denies access to data source SQLState: 08001 VendorError: 0 What's going on? I can connect just fine with the MySQL command-line client. |
MySQL Connector/J must use TCP/IP sockets to connect to MySQL, as Java does not support Unix Domain Sockets. Therefore, when MySQL Connector/J connects to MySQL, the security manager in MySQL server will use its grant tables to determine whether or not the connection should be allowed. You must add grants to allow this to happen. The following is an example of how to do this (but not the most secure). From the mysql command-line client, logged in as a user that can grant privileges, issue the following command: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON [dbname].* to '[user]'@'[hostname]' identified by '[password]' replacing [dbname] with the name of your database, [user] with the user name, [hostname] with the host that MySQL Connector/J will be connecting from, and [password] with the password you want to use. Be aware that RedHat Linux is broken with respect to the hostname portion for the case when you are connecting from localhost. You need to use "localhost.localdomain" for the [hostname] value in this case. Follow this by issuing the "FLUSH PRIVILEGES" command. NoteTesting your connectivity with the "mysql" command-line client will not work unless you add the "--host" flag, and use something other than "localhost" for the host. The "mysql" command-line client will use Unix domain sockets if you use the special hostname "localhost". If you are testing connectivity to "localhost", use "127.0.0.1" as the hostname instead. WarningIf you don't understand what the 'GRANT' command does, or how it works, you should read and understand the 'General Security Issues and the MySQL Access Privilege System' section of the MySQL manual before attempting to change privileges. Changing privileges and permissions improperly in MySQL can potentially cause your server installation to not have optimal security properties. | |
5.2. | My application throws a SQLException 'No Suitable Driver'. Why is this happening? |
One of two things are happening. Either the driver is not in your CLASSPATH (see the "INSTALLATION" section above), or your URL format is incorrect (see "Developing Applications with MySQL Connector/J"). | |
5.3. | I'm trying to use MySQL Connector/J in an applet or application and I get an exception similar to: SQLException: Cannot connect to MySQL server on host:3306. Is there a MySQL server running on the machine/port you are trying to connect to? (java.security.AccessControlException) SQLState: 08S01 VendorError: 0 |
Either you're running an Applet, your MySQL server has been installed with the "--skip-networking" option set, or your MySQL server has a firewall sitting in front of it. Applets can only make network connections back to the machine that runs the web server that served the .class files for the applet. This means that MySQL must run on the same machine (or you must have some sort of port re-direction) for this to work. This also means that you will not be able to test applets from your local file system, you must always deploy them to a web server. MySQL Connector/J can only communicate with MySQL using TCP/IP, as Java does not support Unix domain sockets. TCP/IP communication with MySQL might be affected if MySQL was started with the "--skip-networking" flag, or if it is firewalled. If MySQL has been started with the "--skip-networking" option set (the Debian Linux package of MySQL server does this for example), you need to comment it out in the file /etc/mysql/my.cnf or /etc/my.cnf. Of course your my.cnf file might also exist in the "data" directory of your MySQL server, or anywhere else (depending on how MySQL was compiled for your system). Binaries created by MySQL AB always look in /etc/my.cnf and [datadir]/my.cnf. If your MySQL server has been firewalled, you will need to have the firewall configured to allow TCP/IP connections from the host where your Java code is running to the MySQL server on the port that MySQL is listening to (by default, 3306). | |
5.4. | I have a servlet/application that works fine for a day, and then stops working overnight |
MySQL closes connections after 8 hours of inactivity. You either need to use a connection pool that handles stale connections or use the "autoReconnect" parameter (see "Developing Applications with MySQL Connector/J"). Also, you should be catching SQLExceptions in your application and dealing with them, rather than propagating them all the way until your application exits, this is just good programming practice. MySQL Connector/J will set the SQLState (see java.sql.SQLException.getSQLState() in your APIDOCS) to "08S01" when it encounters network-connectivity issues during the processing of a query. Your application code should then attempt to re-connect to MySQL at this point. The following (simplistic) example shows what code that can handle these exceptions might look like: Example 5.1. Example of transaction with retry logic public void doBusinessOp() throws SQLException { Connection conn = null; Statement stmt = null; ResultSet rs = null; // // How many times do you want to retry the transaction // (or at least _getting_ a connection)? // int retryCount = 5; boolean transactionCompleted = false; do { try { conn = getConnection(); // assume getting this from a // javax.sql.DataSource, or the // java.sql.DriverManager conn.setAutoCommit(false); // // Okay, at this point, the 'retry-ability' of the // transaction really depends on your application logic, // whether or not you're using autocommit (in this case // not), and whether you're using transacational storage // engines // // For this example, we'll assume that it's _not_ safe // to retry the entire transaction, so we set retry count // to 0 at this point // // If you were using exclusively transaction-safe tables, // or your application could recover from a connection going // bad in the middle of an operation, then you would not // touch 'retryCount' here, and just let the loop repeat // until retryCount == 0. // retryCount = 0; stmt = conn.createStatement(); String query = "SELECT foo FROM bar ORDER BY baz"; rs = stmt.executeQuery(query); while (rs.next()) { } rs.close(); rs = null; stmt.close(); stmt = null; conn.commit(); conn.close(); conn = null; transactionCompleted = true; } catch (SQLException sqlEx) { // // The two SQL states that are 'retry-able' are 08S01 // for a communications error, and 41000 for deadlock. // // Only retry if the error was due to a stale connection, // communications problem or deadlock // String sqlState = sqlEx.getSQLState(); if ("08S01".equals(sqlState) || "41000".equals(sqlState)) { retryCount--; } else { retryCount = 0; } } finally { if (rs != null) { try { rs.close(); } catch (SQLException sqlEx) { // You'd probably want to log this . . . } } if (stmt != null) { try { stmt.close(); } catch (SQLException sqlEx) { // You'd probably want to log this as well . . . } } if (conn != null) { try { // // If we got here, and conn is not null, the // transaction should be rolled back, as not // all work has been done try { conn.rollback(); } finally { conn.close(); } } catch (SQLException sqlEx) { // // If we got an exception here, something // pretty serious is going on, so we better // pass it up the stack, rather than just // logging it. . . throw sqlEx; } } } } while (!transactionCompleted && (retryCount > 0)); } | |
5.5. | I'm trying to use JDBC-2.0 updatable result sets, and I get an exception saying my result set is not updatable. |
Because MySQL does not have row identifiers, MySQL Connector/J can only update result sets that have come from queries on tables that have at least one primary key, the query must select all of the primary key(s) and the query can only span one table (i.e. no joins). This is outlined in the JDBC specification. |
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MySQL Connector/J is flexible in the way it handles conversions between MySQL data types and Java data types.
In general, any MySQL data type can be converted to a java.lang.String, and any numerical type can be converted to any of the Java numerical types, although round-off, overflow, or loss of precision may occur.
The conversions that are always guaranteed to work are listed in the following table:
Table A.1. Conversion Table
These MySQL Data Types | Can always be converted to these Java types |
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CHAR, VARCHAR, BLOB, TEXT, ENUM, and SET | java.lang.String, java.io.InputStream, java.io.Reader, java.sql.Blob, java.sql.Clob |
FLOAT, REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION, NUMERIC, DECIMAL, TINYINT, SMALLINT, MEDIUMINT, INTEGER, BIGINT | java.lang.String, java.lang.Short,
java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Long, java.lang.Double,
java.math.BigDecimalNoteround-off, overflow or loss of precision may occur if you choose a Java numeric data type that has less precision or capacity than the MySQL data type you are converting to/from. |
DATE, TIME, DATETIME, TIMESTAMP | java.lang.String, java.sql.Date, java.sql.Timestamp |
Columns with an unsigned numeric type in MySQL are treated as the next 'larger' Java type that the signed variant of the MySQL type maps to:
Table A.2. Unsigned Types Mapping
MySQL Type | Corresponding Java Type |
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TINYINT UNSIGNED | java.lang.Integer |
SMALLINT UNSIGNED | java.lang.Integer |
MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED | java.lang.Long |
INT UNSIGNED | java.lang.Long |
BIGINT UNSIGNED | java.math.BigIntegerNoteBefore MySQL Connector/J 3.1.3, BIGINT UNSIGNED was mapped to java.math.BigDecimal. |
The JDBC API uses SQLStates as a standard way of identifying error conditions in SQLExceptions. Prior to MySQL server version 4.1, Connector/J performed this mapping itself, as the server did not use SQLStates. MySQL server versions 4.1.0 send SQLState codes with error messages which Connector/J uses in SQLExceptions.
Prior to Connector/J version 3.1.3, a combination of SQL Standard and X/Open SQLStates were used for MySQL server versions older than 4.1.0.
Connector/J version 3.1.3 and newer use the SQL Standard SQLStates returned from the server (if available), or a mapping to SQL Standard SQLStates, unless the configuration property 'useSqlStateCodes' is set to 'false', which will cause the driver to use the older, 'legacy' SQLState mappings that Connector/J 3.0 used.
The following table shows the mapping of MySQL error numbers to SQLStates that Connector/J uses:
Table B.1. Mapping of MySQL Error Numbers to SQLStates
MySQL Error Number | MySQL Error Name | Legacy (X/Open) SQLState | SQL Standard SQLState |
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1022 | ER_DUP_KEY | S1000 | 23000 |
1037 | ER_OUTOFMEMORY | S1001 | HY001 |
1038 | ER_OUT_OF_SORTMEMORY | S1001 | HY001 |
1040 | ER_CON_COUNT_ERROR | 08004 | 08004 |
1042 | ER_BAD_HOST_ERROR | 08004 | 08S01 |
1043 | ER_HANDSHAKE_ERROR | 08004 | 08S01 |
1044 | ER_DBACCESS_DENIED_ERROR | S1000 | 42000 |
1045 | ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR | 28000 | 28000 |
1047 | ER_UNKNOWN_COM_ERROR | 08S01 | HY000 |
1050 | ER_TABLE_EXISTS_ERROR | S1000 | 42S01 |
1051 | ER_BAD_TABLE_ERROR | 42S02 | 42S02 |
1052 | ER_NON_UNIQ_ERROR | S1000 | 23000 |
1053 | ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWN | S1000 | 08S01 |
1054 | ER_BAD_FIELD_ERROR | S0022 | 42S22 |
1055 | ER_WRONG_FIELD_WITH_GROUP | S1009 | 42000 |
1056 | ER_WRONG_GROUP_FIELD | S1009 | 42000 |
1057 | ER_WRONG_SUM_SELECT | S1009 | 42000 |
1058 | ER_WRONG_VALUE_COUNT | 21S01 | 21S01 |
1059 | ER_TOO_LONG_IDENT | S1009 | 42000 |
1060 | ER_DUP_FIELDNAME | S1009 | 42S21 |
1061 | ER_DUP_KEYNAME | S1009 | 42000 |
1062 | ER_DUP_ENTRY | S1009 | 23000 |
1063 | ER_WRONG_FIELD_SPEC | S1009 | 42000 |
1064 | ER_PARSE_ERROR | 42000 | 42000 |
1065 | ER_EMPTY_QUERY | 42000 | 42000 |
1066 | ER_NONUNIQ_TABLE | S1009 | 42000 |
1067 | ER_INVALID_DEFAULT | S1009 | 42000 |
1068 | ER_MULTIPLE_PRI_KEY | S1009 | 42000 |
1069 | ER_TOO_MANY_KEYS | S1009 | 42000 |
1070 | ER_TOO_MANY_KEY_PARTS | S1009 | 42000 |
1071 | ER_TOO_LONG_KEY | S1009 | 42000 |
1072 | ER_KEY_COLUMN_DOES_NOT_EXITS | S1009 | 42000 |
1073 | ER_BLOB_USED_AS_KEY | S1009 | 42000 |
1074 | ER_TOO_BIG_FIELDLENGTH | S1009 | 42000 |
1075 | ER_WRONG_AUTO_KEY | S1009 | 42000 |
1080 | ER_FORCING_CLOSE | S1000 | 08S01 |
1081 | ER_IPSOCK_ERROR | 08S01 | 08S01 |
1082 | ER_NO_SUCH_INDEX | S1009 | 42S12 |
1083 | ER_WRONG_FIELD_TERMINATORS | S1009 | 42000 |
1084 | ER_BLOBS_AND_NO_TERMINATED | S1009 | 42000 |
1090 | ER_CANT_REMOVE_ALL_FIELDS | S1000 | 42000 |
1091 | ER_CANT_DROP_FIELD_OR_KEY | S1000 | 42000 |
1101 | ER_BLOB_CANT_HAVE_DEFAULT | S1000 | 42000 |
1102 | ER_WRONG_DB_NAME | S1000 | 42000 |
1103 | ER_WRONG_TABLE_NAME | S1000 | 42000 |
1104 | ER_TOO_BIG_SELECT | S1000 | 42000 |
1106 | ER_UNKNOWN_PROCEDURE | S1000 | 42000 |
1107 | ER_WRONG_PARAMCOUNT_TO_PROCEDURE | S1000 | 42000 |
1109 | ER_UNKNOWN_TABLE | S1000 | 42S02 |
1110 | ER_FIELD_SPECIFIED_TWICE | S1000 | 42000 |
1112 | ER_UNSUPPORTED_EXTENSION | S1000 | 42000 |
1113 | ER_TABLE_MUST_HAVE_COLUMNS | S1000 | 42000 |
1115 | ER_UNKNOWN_CHARACTER_SET | S1000 | 42000 |
1118 | ER_TOO_BIG_ROWSIZE | S1000 | 42000 |
1120 | ER_WRONG_OUTER_JOIN | S1000 | 42000 |
1121 | ER_NULL_COLUMN_IN_INDEX | S1000 | 42000 |
1129 | ER_HOST_IS_BLOCKED | 08004 | HY000 |
1130 | ER_HOST_NOT_PRIVILEGED | 08004 | HY000 |
1131 | ER_PASSWORD_ANONYMOUS_USER | S1000 | 42000 |
1132 | ER_PASSWORD_NOT_ALLOWED | S1000 | 42000 |
1133 | ER_PASSWORD_NO_MATCH | S1000 | 42000 |
1136 | ER_WRONG_VALUE_COUNT_ON_ROW | S1000 | 21S01 |
1138 | ER_INVALID_USE_OF_NULL | S1000 | 42000 |
1139 | ER_REGEXP_ERROR | S1000 | 42000 |
1140 | ER_MIX_OF_GROUP_FUNC_AND_FIELDS | S1000 | 42000 |
1141 | ER_NONEXISTING_GRANT | S1000 | 42000 |
1142 | ER_TABLEACCESS_DENIED_ERROR | S1000 | 42000 |
1143 | ER_COLUMNACCESS_DENIED_ERROR | S1000 | 42000 |
1144 | ER_ILLEGAL_GRANT_FOR_TABLE | S1000 | 42000 |
1145 | ER_GRANT_WRONG_HOST_OR_USER | S1000 | 42000 |
1146 | ER_NO_SUCH_TABLE | S1000 | 42S02 |
1147 | ER_NONEXISTING_TABLE_GRANT | S1000 | 42000 |
1148 | ER_NOT_ALLOWED_COMMAND | S1000 | 42000 |
1149 | ER_SYNTAX_ERROR | S1000 | 42000 |
1152 | ER_ABORTING_CONNECTION | S1000 | 08S01 |
1153 | ER_NET_PACKET_TOO_LARGE | S1000 | 08S01 |
1154 | ER_NET_READ_ERROR_FROM_PIPE | S1000 | 08S01 |
1155 | ER_NET_FCNTL_ERROR | S1000 | 08S01 |
1156 | ER_NET_PACKETS_OUT_OF_ORDER | S1000 | 08S01 |
1157 | ER_NET_UNCOMPRESS_ERROR | S1000 | 08S01 |
1158 | ER_NET_READ_ERROR | S1000 | 08S01 |
1159 | ER_NET_READ_INTERRUPTED | S1000 | 08S01 |
1160 | ER_NET_ERROR_ON_WRITE | S1000 | 08S01 |
1161 | ER_NET_WRITE_INTERRUPTED | S1000 | 08S01 |
1162 | ER_TOO_LONG_STRING | S1000 | 42000 |
1163 | ER_TABLE_CANT_HANDLE_BLOB | S1000 | 42000 |
1164 | ER_TABLE_CANT_HANDLE_AUTO_INCREMENT | S1000 | 42000 |
1166 | ER_WRONG_COLUMN_NAME | S1000 | 42000 |
1167 | ER_WRONG_KEY_COLUMN | S1000 | 42000 |
1169 | ER_DUP_UNIQUE | S1000 | 23000 |
1170 | ER_BLOB_KEY_WITHOUT_LENGTH | S1000 | 42000 |
1171 | ER_PRIMARY_CANT_HAVE_NULL | S1000 | 42000 |
1172 | ER_TOO_MANY_ROWS | S1000 | 42000 |
1173 | ER_REQUIRES_PRIMARY_KEY | S1000 | 42000 |
1177 | ER_CHECK_NO_SUCH_TABLE | S1000 | 42000 |
1178 | ER_CHECK_NOT_IMPLEMENTED | S1000 | 42000 |
1179 | ER_CANT_DO_THIS_DURING_AN_TRANSACTION | S1000 | 25000 |
1184 | ER_NEW_ABORTING_CONNECTION | S1000 | 08S01 |
1189 | ER_MASTER_NET_READ | S1000 | 08S01 |
1190 | ER_MASTER_NET_WRITE | S1000 | 08S01 |
1203 | ER_TOO_MANY_USER_CONNECTIONS | S1000 | 42000 |
1205 | ER_LOCK_WAIT_TIMEOUT | 41000 | HY000 |
1207 | ER_READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION | S1000 | 25000 |
1211 | ER_NO_PERMISSION_TO_CREATE_USER | S1000 | 42000 |
1213 | ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK | 41000 | 40001 |
1216 | ER_NO_REFERENCED_ROW | S1000 | 23000 |
1217 | ER_ROW_IS_REFERENCED | S1000 | 23000 |
1218 | ER_CONNECT_TO_MASTER | S1000 | 08S01 |
1222 | ER_WRONG_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_SELECT | S1000 | 21000 |
1226 | ER_USER_LIMIT_REACHED | S1000 | 42000 |
1230 | ER_NO_DEFAULT | S1000 | 42000 |
1231 | ER_WRONG_VALUE_FOR_VAR | S1000 | 42000 |
1232 | ER_WRONG_TYPE_FOR_VAR | S1000 | 42000 |
1234 | ER_CANT_USE_OPTION_HERE | S1000 | 42000 |
1235 | ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_YET | S1000 | 42000 |
1239 | ER_WRONG_FK_DEF | S1000 | 42000 |
1241 | ER_OPERAND_COLUMNS | S1000 | 21000 |
1242 | ER_SUBQUERY_NO_1_ROW | S1000 | 21000 |
1247 | ER_ILLEGAL_REFERENCE | S1000 | 42S22 |
1248 | ER_DERIVED_MUST_HAVE_ALIAS | S1000 | 42000 |
1249 | ER_SELECT_REDUCED | S1000 | 01000 |
1250 | ER_TABLENAME_NOT_ALLOWED_HERE | S1000 | 42000 |
1251 | ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_MODE | S1000 | 08004 |
1252 | ER_SPATIAL_CANT_HAVE_NULL | S1000 | 42000 |
1253 | ER_COLLATION_CHARSET_MISMATCH | S1000 | 42000 |
1261 | ER_WARN_TOO_FEW_RECORDS | S1000 | 01000 |
1262 | ER_WARN_TOO_MANY_RECORDS | S1000 | 01000 |
1263 | ER_WARN_NULL_TO_NOTNULL | S1000 | 01000 |
1264 | ER_WARN_DATA_OUT_OF_RANGE | S1000 | 01000 |
1265 | ER_WARN_DATA_TRUNCATED | S1000 | 01000 |
1280 | ER_WRONG_NAME_FOR_INDEX | S1000 | 42000 |
1281 | ER_WRONG_NAME_FOR_CATALOG | S1000 | 42000 |
1286 | ER_UNKNOWN_STORAGE_ENGINE | S1000 | 42000 |
# Changelog # $Id: CHANGES,v 1.38.4.146 2004/12/21 21:49:27 mmatthew Exp $ 02-18-05 - Version 3.1.7-stable - Fixed BUG#7686, Timestamp key column data needed "_binary'" stripped for UpdatableResultSet.refreshRow(). - Fixed BUG#7715 - Timestamps converted incorrectly to strings with Server-side prepared statements and updatable result sets. - Detect new 'stringified' sql_mode variable and adjust quoting method for strings appropriately. - Added 'holdResultsOpenOverStatementClose' property (default is false), that keeps result sets open over statement.close() or new execution on same statement (suggested by Kevin Burton). - Fixed BUG#7952 -- Infinite recursion when 'falling back' to master in failover configuration. - Disable multi-statements (if enabled) for MySQL-4.1 versions prior to version 4.1.10 if the query cache is enabled, as the server returns wrong results in this configuration. - Fixed duplicated code in configureClientCharset() that prevented useOldUTF8Behavior=true from working properly. - Removed 'dontUnpackBinaryResults' functionality, the driver now always stores results from server-side prepared statements as-is from the server and un-packs them on demand. - Fixed BUG#8096 where emulated locators corrupt binary data when using server-side prepared statements. - Fixed synchronization issue with ServerPreparedStatement.serverPrepare() that could cause deadlocks/crashes if connection was shared between threads. - By default, the driver now scans SQL you are preparing via all variants of Connection.prepareStatement() to determine if it is a supported type of statement to prepare on the server side, and if it is not supported by the server, it instead prepares it as a client-side emulated prepared statement (BUG#4718). You can disable this by passing 'emulateUnsupportedPstmts=false' in your JDBC URL. - Remove _binary introducer from parameters used as in/out parameters in CallableStatement. - Always return byte[]s for output parameters registered as *BINARY. - Send correct value for 'boolean' "true" to server for PreparedStatement. setObject(n, "true", Types.BIT). - Fixed bug with Connection not caching statements from prepareStatement() when the statement wasn't a server-side prepared statement. - Choose correct 'direction' to apply time adjustments when both client and server are both in GMT timezone when using ResultSet.get(..., cal) and PreparedStatement.set(...., cal). - Added 'dontTrackOpenResources' option (default is false, to be JDBC compliant), which helps with memory use for non-well-behaved apps (i.e applications which don't close Statements when they should). - Fixed BUG#8428 - ResultSet.getString() doesn't maintain format stored on server, bugfix only enabled when 'noDatetimeStringSync' property is set to 'true' (the default is 'false'). - Fixed NPE in ResultSet.realClose() when using usage advisor and result set was already closed. - Fixed BUG#8487 - PreparedStatements not creating streaming result sets. - Don't pass NULL to String.valueOf() in ResultSet.getNativeConvertToString(), as it stringifies it (i.e. returns "null"), which is not correct for the method in question. - Fixed BUG#8484 - ResultSet.getBigDecimal() throws exception when rounding would need to occur to set scale. The driver now chooses a rounding mode of 'half up' if non-rounding BigDecimal.setScale() fails. - Added 'useLocalSessionState' configuration property, when set to 'true' the JDBC driver trusts that the application is well-behaved and only sets autocommit and transaction isolation levels using the methods provided on java.sql.Connection, and therefore can manipulate these values in many cases without incurring round-trips to the database server. - Added enableStreamingResults() to Statement for connection pool impl. that check Statement.setFetchSize() for spec-compliant values. Call Statement.setFetchSize(>=0) to disable the streaming results for that statement. - Added support for BIT type in MySQL-5.0.3. The driver will treat BIT(1-8) as the JDBC standard BIT type (which maps to java.lang.Boolean), as the server does not currently send enough information to deterimine the size of a bitfield when < 9 bits are declared. BIT(>9) will be treated as VARBINARY, and will return byte[] when getObject() is called. 12-23-04 - Version 3.1.6-stable - Fixed hang on SocketInputStream.read() with Statement.setMaxRows() and multiple result sets when driver has to truncate result set directly, rather than tacking a 'LIMIT n' on the end of it. - Fixed BUG#7026 - DBMD.getProcedures() doesn't respect catalog parameter. 12-02-04 - Version 3.1.5-gamma - Fix comparisons made between string constants and dynamic strings that are either toUpperCase()d or toLowerCase()d to use Locale.ENGLISH, as some locales 'override' case rules for English. Also use StringUtils.indexOfIgnoreCase() instead of .toUpperCase().indexOf(), avoids creating a very short-lived transient String instance. - Fixed BUG#5235 - Server-side prepared statements did not honor 'zeroDateTimeBehavior' property, and would cause class-cast exceptions when using ResultSet.getObject(), as the all-zero string was always returned. - Fixed batched updates with server prepared statements weren't looking if the types had changed for a given batched set of parameters compared to the previous set, causing the server to return the error 'Wrong arguments to mysql_stmt_execute()'. - Handle case when string representation of timestamp contains trailing '.' with no numbers following it. - Fixed BUG#5706 - Inefficient detection of pre-existing string instances in ResultSet.getNativeString(). - Don't throw exceptions for Connection.releaseSavepoint(). - Use a per-session Calendar instance by default when decoding dates from ServerPreparedStatements (set to old, less performant behavior by setting property 'dynamicCalendars=true'). - Added experimental configuration property 'dontUnpackBinaryResults', which delays unpacking binary result set values until they're asked for, and only creates object instances for non-numerical values (it is set to 'false' by default). For some usecase/jvm combinations, this is friendlier on the garbage collector. - Fixed BUG#5729 - UNSIGNED BIGINT unpacked incorrectly from server-side prepared statement result sets. - Fixed BUG#6225 - ServerSidePreparedStatement allocating short-lived objects un-necessarily. - Removed un-wanted new Throwable() in ResultSet constructor due to bad merge (caused a new object instance that was never used for every result set created) - Found while profiling for BUG#6359. - Fixed too-early creation of StringBuffer in EscapeProcessor.escapeSQL(), also return String when escaping not needed (to avoid unnecssary object allocations). Found while profiling for BUG#6359. - Use null-safe-equals for key comparisons in updatable result sets. - Fixed BUG#6537, SUM() on Decimal with server-side prepared statement ignores scale if zero-padding is needed (this ends up being due to conversion to DOUBLE by server, which when converted to a string to parse into BigDecimal, loses all 'padding' zeros). - Use DatabaseMetaData.getIdentifierQuoteString() when building DBMD queries. - Use 1MB packet for sending file for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE if that is < 'max_allowed_packet' on server. - Fixed BUG#6399, ResultSetMetaData.getColumnDisplaySize() returns incorrect values for multibyte charsets. - Make auto-deserialization of java.lang.Objects stored in BLOBs configurable via 'autoDeserialize' property (defaults to 'false'). - Re-work Field.isOpaqueBinary() to detect 'CHAR(n) CHARACTER SET BINARY' to support fixed-length binary fields for ResultSet.getObject(). - Use our own implementation of buffered input streams to get around blocking behavior of java.io.BufferedInputStream. Disable this with 'useReadAheadInput=false'. - Fixed BUG#6348, failing to connect to the server when one of the addresses for the given host name is IPV6 (which the server does not yet bind on). The driver now loops through _all_ IP addresses for a given host, and stops on the first one that accepts() a socket.connect(). 09-04-04 - Version 3.1.4-beta - Fixed BUG#4510 - connector/j 3.1.3 beta does not handle integers correctly (caused by changes to support unsigned reads in Buffer.readInt() -> Buffer.readShort()). - Added support in DatabaseMetaData.getTables() and getTableTypes() for VIEWs which are now available in MySQL server version 5.0.x. - Fixed BUG#4642 -- ServerPreparedStatement.execute*() sometimes threw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when unpacking field metadata. - Optimized integer number parsing, enable 'old' slower integer parsing using JDK classes via 'useFastIntParsing=false' property. - Added 'useOnlyServerErrorMessages' property, which causes message text in exceptions generated by the server to only contain the text sent by the server (as opposed to the SQLState's 'standard' description, followed by the server's error message). This property is set to 'true' by default. - Fixed BUG#4689 - ResultSet.wasNull() does not work for primatives if a previous null was returned. - Track packet sequence numbers if enablePacketDebug=true, and throw an exception if packets received out-of-order. - Fixed BUG#4482, ResultSet.getObject() returns wrong type for strings when using prepared statements. - Calling MysqlPooledConnection.close() twice (even though an application error), caused NPE. Fixed. - Fixed BUG#5012 -- ServerPreparedStatements dealing with return of DECIMAL type don't work. - Fixed BUG#5032 -- ResultSet.getObject() doesn't return type Boolean for pseudo-bit types from prepared statements on 4.1.x (shortcut for avoiding extra type conversion when using binary-encoded result sets obscurred test in getObject() for 'pseudo' bit type) - You can now use URLs in 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE' statements, and the driver will use Java's built-in handlers for retreiving the data and sending it to the server. This feature is not enabled by default, you must set the 'allowUrlInLocalInfile' connection property to 'true'. - The driver is more strict about truncation of numerics on ResultSet.get*(), and will throw a SQLException when truncation is detected. You can disable this by setting 'jdbcCompliantTruncation' to false (it is enabled by default, as this functionality is required for JDBC compliance). - Added three ways to deal with all-zero datetimes when reading them from a ResultSet, 'exception' (the default), which throws a SQLException with a SQLState of 'S1009', 'convertToNull', which returns NULL instead of the date, and 'round', which rounds the date to the nearest closest value which is '0001-01-01'. - Fixed ServerPreparedStatement to read prepared statement metadata off the wire, even though it's currently a placeholder instead of using MysqlIO.clearInputStream() which didn't work at various times because data wasn't available to read from the server yet. This fixes sporadic errors users were having with ServerPreparedStatements throwing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundExceptions. - Use com.mysql.jdbc.Message's classloader when loading resource bundle, should fix sporadic issues when the caller's classloader can't locate the resource bundle. 07-07-04 - Version 3.1.3-beta - Mangle output parameter names for CallableStatements so they will not clash with user variable names. - Added support for INOUT parameters in CallableStatements. - Fix for BUG#4119, null bitmask sent for server-side prepared statements was incorrect. - Use SQL Standard SQL states by default, unless 'useSqlStateCodes' property is set to 'false'. - Added packet debuging code (see the 'enablePacketDebug' property documentation). - Added constants for MySQL error numbers (publicly-accessible, see com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlErrorNumbers), and the ability to generate the mappings of vendor error codes to SQLStates that the driver uses (for documentation purposes). - Externalized more messages (on-going effort). - Fix for BUG#4311 - Error in retrieval of mediumint column with prepared statements and binary protocol. - Support new timezone variables in MySQL-4.1.3 when 'useTimezone=true' - Support for unsigned numerics as return types from prepared statements. This also causes a change in ResultSet.getObject() for the 'bigint unsigned' type, which used to return BigDecimal instances, it now returns instances of java.lang.BigInteger. 06-09-04 - Version 3.1.2-alpha - Fixed stored procedure parameter parsing info when size was specified for a parameter (i.e. char(), varchar()). - Enabled callable statement caching via 'cacheCallableStmts' property. - Fixed case when no output parameters specified for a stored procedure caused a bogus query to be issued to retrieve out parameters, leading to a syntax error from the server. - Fixed case when no parameters could cause a NullPointerException in CallableStatement.setOutputParameters(). - Removed wrapping of exceptions in MysqlIO.changeUser(). - Fixed sending of split packets for large queries, enabled nio ability to send large packets as well. - Added .toString() functionality to ServerPreparedStatement, which should help if you're trying to debug a query that is a prepared statement (it shows SQL as the server would process). - Added 'gatherPerformanceMetrics' property, along with properties to control when/where this info gets logged (see docs for more info). - ServerPreparedStatements weren't actually de-allocating server-side resources when .close() was called. - Added 'logSlowQueries' property, along with property 'slowQueriesThresholdMillis' to control when a query should be considered 'slow'. - Correctly map output parameters to position given in prepareCall() vs. order implied during registerOutParameter() - fixes BUG#3146. - Correctly detect initial character set for servers >= 4.1.0 - Cleaned up detection of server properties. - Support placeholder for parameter metadata for server >= 4.1.2 - Fix for BUG#3539 getProcedures() does not return any procedures in result set - Fix for BUG#3540 getProcedureColumns() doesn't work with wildcards for procedure name - Fixed BUG#3520 -- DBMD.getSQLStateType() returns incorrect value. - Added 'connectionCollation' property to cause driver to issue 'set collation_connection=...' query on connection init if default collation for given charset is not appropriate. - Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getProcedures() when run on MySQL-5.0.0 (output of 'show procedure status' changed between 5.0.1 and 5.0.0. - Fixed BUG#3804 -- getWarnings() returns SQLWarning instead of DataTruncation - Don't enable server-side prepared statements for server version 5.0.0 or 5.0.1, as they aren't compatible with the '4.1.2+' style that the driver uses (the driver expects information to come back that isn't there, so it hangs). 02-14-04 - Version 3.1.1-alpha - Fixed bug with UpdatableResultSets not using client-side prepared statements. - Fixed character encoding issues when converting bytes to ASCII when MySQL doesn't provide the character set, and the JVM is set to a multibyte encoding (usually affecting retrieval of numeric values). - Unpack 'unknown' data types from server prepared statements as Strings. - Implemented long data (Blobs, Clobs, InputStreams, Readers) for server prepared statements. - Implemented Statement.getWarnings() for MySQL-4.1 and newer (using 'SHOW WARNINGS'). - Default result set type changed to TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY (JDBC compliance). - Centralized setting of result set type and concurrency. - Re-factored how connection properties are set and exposed as DriverPropertyInfo as well as Connection and DataSource properties. - Support for NIO. Use 'useNIO=true' on platforms that support NIO. - Support for SAVEPOINTs (MySQL >= 4.0.14 or 4.1.1). - Support for mysql_change_user()...See the changeUser() method in com.mysql.jdbc.Connection. - Reduced number of methods called in average query to be more efficient. - Prepared Statements will be re-prepared on auto-reconnect. Any errors encountered are postponed until first attempt to re-execute the re-prepared statement. - Ensure that warnings are cleared before executing queries on prepared statements, as-per JDBC spec (now that we support warnings). - Support 'old' profileSql capitalization in ConnectionProperties. This property is deprecated, you should use 'profileSQL' if possible. - Optimized Buffer.readLenByteArray() to return shared empty byte array when length is 0. - Allow contents of PreparedStatement.setBlob() to be retained between calls to .execute*(). - Deal with 0-length tokens in EscapeProcessor (caused by callable statement escape syntax). - Check for closed connection on delete/update/insert row operations in UpdatableResultSet. - Fix support for table aliases when checking for all primary keys in UpdatableResultSet. - Removed useFastDates connection property. - Correctly initialize datasource properties from JNDI Refs, including explicitly specified URLs. - DatabaseMetaData now reports supportsStoredProcedures() for MySQL versions >= 5.0.0 - Fixed stack overflow in Connection.prepareCall() (bad merge). - Fixed IllegalAccessError to Calendar.getTimeInMillis() in DateTimeValue (for JDK < 1.4). - Fix for BUG#1673, where DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() is not returning correct column ordinal info for non '%' column name patterns. - Merged fix of datatype mapping from MySQL type 'FLOAT' to java.sql.Types.REAL from 3.0 branch. - Detect collation of column for RSMD.isCaseSensitive(). - Fixed sending of queries > 16M. - Added named and indexed input/output parameter support to CallableStatement. MySQL-5.0.x or newer. - Fixed NullPointerException in ServerPreparedStatement.setTimestamp(), as well as year and month descrepencies in ServerPreparedStatement.setTimestamp(), setDate(). - Added ability to have multiple database/JVM targets for compliance and regression/unit tests in build.xml. - Fixed NPE and year/month bad conversions when accessing some datetime functionality in ServerPreparedStatements and their resultant result sets. - Display where/why a connection was implicitly closed (to aid debugging). - CommunicationsException implemented, that tries to determine why communications was lost with a server, and displays possible reasons when .getMessage() is called. - Fixed BUG#2359, NULL values for numeric types in binary encoded result sets causing NullPointerExceptions. - Implemented Connection.prepareCall(), and DatabaseMetaData. getProcedures() and getProcedureColumns(). - Reset 'long binary' parameters in ServerPreparedStatement when clearParameters() is called, by sending COM_RESET_STMT to the server. - Merged prepared statement caching, and .getMetaData() support from 3.0 branch. - Fixed off-by-1900 error in some cases for years in TimeUtil.fastDate/TimeCreate() when unpacking results from server-side prepared statements. - Fixed BUG#2502 -- charset conversion issue in getTables(). - Implemented multiple result sets returned from a statement or stored procedure. - Fixed BUG#2606 -- Server side prepared statements not returning datatype 'YEAR' correctly. - Enabled streaming of result sets from server-side prepared statements. - Fixed BUG#2623 -- Class-cast exception when using scrolling result sets and server-side prepared statements. - Merged unbuffered input code from 3.0. - Fixed ConnectionProperties that weren't properly exposed via accessors, cleaned up ConnectionProperties code. - Fixed BUG#2671, NULL fields not being encoded correctly in all cases in server side prepared statements. - Fixed rare buffer underflow when writing numbers into buffers for sending prepared statement execution requests. - Use DocBook version of docs for shipped versions of drivers. 02-18-03 - Version 3.1.0-alpha - Added 'requireSSL' property. - Added 'useServerPrepStmts' property (default 'false'). The driver will use server-side prepared statements when the server version supports them (4.1 and newer) when this property is set to 'true'. It is currently set to 'false' by default until all bind/fetch functionality has been implemented. Currently only DML prepared statements are implemented for 4.1 server-side prepared statements. - Track open Statements, close all when Connection.close() is called (JDBC compliance). xx-xx-05 - Version 3.0.17-ga - Fixed BUG#5874, Timestamp/Time conversion goes in the wrong 'direction' when useTimeZone='true' and server timezone differs from client timezone. - Fixed BUG#7081, DatabaseMetaData.getIndexInfo() ignoring 'unique' parameter. - Support new protocol type 'MYSQL_TYPE_VARCHAR'. - Added 'useOldUTF8Behavoior' configuration property, which causes JDBC driver to act like it did with MySQL-4.0.x and earlier when the character encoding is 'utf-8' when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer. - Fixed BUG#7316 - Statements created from a pooled connection were returning physical connection instead of logical connection when getConnection() was called. - Fixed BUG#7033 - PreparedStatements don't encode Big5 (and other multibyte) character sets correctly in static SQL strings. - Fixed BUG#6966, connections starting up failed-over (due to down master) never retry master. - Fixed BUG#7061, PreparedStatement.fixDecimalExponent() adding extra '+', making number unparseable by MySQL server. - Fixed BUG#7686, Timestamp key column data needed "_binary'" stripped for UpdatableResultSet.refreshRow(). - Backported SQLState codes mapping from Connector/J 3.1, enable with 'useSqlStateCodes=true' as a connection property, it defaults to 'false' in this release, so that we don't break legacy applications (it defaults to 'true' starting with Connector/J 3.1). - Fixed BUG#7601, PreparedStatement.fixDecimalExponent() adding extra '+', making number unparseable by MySQL server. - Escape sequence {fn convert(..., type)} now supports ODBC-style types that are prepended by 'SQL_'. - Fixed duplicated code in configureClientCharset() that prevented useOldUTF8Behavior=true from working properly. - Handle streaming result sets with > 2 billion rows properly by fixing wraparound of row number counter. - Fixed BUG#7607 - MS932, SHIFT_JIS and Windows_31J not recog. as aliases for sjis. - Fixed BUG#6549 (while fixing #7607), adding 'CP943' to aliases for sjis. - Fixed BUG#8064, which requires hex escaping of binary data when using multibyte charsets with prepared statements. 11-15-04 - Version 3.0.16-ga - Re-issue character set configuration commands when re-using pooled connections and/or Connection.changeUser() when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer. - Fixed ResultSetMetaData.isReadOnly() to detect non-writable columns when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer, based on existence of 'original' table and column names. - Fixed BUG#5664, ResultSet.updateByte() when on insert row throws ArrayOutOfBoundsException. - Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getTypes() returning incorrect (i.e. non-negative) scale for the 'NUMERIC' type. - Fixed BUG#6198, off-by-one bug in Buffer.readString(string). - Made TINYINT(1) -> BIT/Boolean conversion configurable via 'tinyInt1isBit' property (default 'true' to be JDBC compliant out of the box). - Only set 'character_set_results' during connection establishment if server version >= 4.1.1. - Fixed regression where useUnbufferedInput was defaulting to 'false'. - Fixed BUG#6231, ResultSet.getTimestamp() on a column with TIME in it fails. 09-04-04 - Version 3.0.15-production - Fixed BUG#4010 - StringUtils.escapeEasternUnicodeByteStream is still broken for GBK - Fixed BUG#4334 - Failover for autoReconnect not using port #'s for any hosts, and not retrying all hosts. (WARN: This required a change to the SocketFactory connect() method signature, which is now public Socket connect(String host, int portNumber, Properties props) therefore any third-party socket factories will have to be changed to support this signature. - Logical connections created by MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource will now issue a rollback() when they are closed and sent back to the pool. If your application server/connection pool already does this for you, you can set the 'rollbackOnPooledClose' property to false to avoid the overhead of an extra rollback(). - Removed redundant calls to checkRowPos() in ResultSet. - Fixed BUG#4742, 'DOUBLE' mapped twice in DBMD.getTypeInfo(). - Added FLOSS license exemption. - Fixed BUG#4808, calling .close() twice on a PooledConnection causes NPE. - Fixed BUG#4138 and BUG#4860, DBMD.getColumns() returns incorrect JDBC type for unsigned columns. This affects type mappings for all numeric types in the RSMD.getColumnType() and RSMD.getColumnTypeNames() methods as well, to ensure that 'like' types from DBMD.getColumns() match up with what RSMD.getColumnType() and getColumnTypeNames() return. - 'Production' - 'GA' in naming scheme of distributions. - Fix for BUG#4880, RSMD.getPrecision() returning 0 for non-numeric types (should return max length in chars for non-binary types, max length in bytes for binary types). This fix also fixes mapping of RSMD.getColumnType() and RSMD.getColumnTypeName() for the BLOB types based on the length sent from the server (the server doesn't distinguish between TINYBLOB, BLOB, MEDIUMBLOB or LONGBLOB at the network protocol level). - Fixed BUG#5022 - ResultSet should release Field[] instance in .close(). - Fixed BUG#5069 -- ResultSet.getMetaData() should not return incorrectly-initialized metadata if the result set has been closed, but should instead throw a SQLException. Also fixed for getRow() and getWarnings() and traversal methods by calling checkClosed() before operating on instance-level fields that are nullified during .close(). - Parse new timezone variables from 4.1.x servers. - Use _binary introducer for PreparedStatement.setBytes() and set*Stream() when connected to MySQL-4.1.x or newer to avoid misinterpretation during character conversion. 05-28-04 - Version 3.0.14-production - Fixed URL parsing error 05-27-04 - Version 3.0.13-production - Fixed BUG#3848 - Using a MySQLDatasource without server name fails - Fixed BUG#3920 - "No Database Selected" when using MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource. - Fixed BUG#3873 - PreparedStatement.getGeneratedKeys() method returns only 1 result for batched insertions 05-18-04 - Version 3.0.12-production - Add unsigned attribute to DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() output in the TYPE_NAME column. - Added 'failOverReadOnly' property, to allow end-user to configure state of connection (read-only/writable) when failed over. - Backported 'change user' and 'reset server state' functionality from 3.1 branch, to allow clients of MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource to reset server state on getConnection() on a pooled connection. - Don't escape SJIS/GBK/BIG5 when using MySQL-4.1 or newer. - Allow 'url' parameter for MysqlDataSource and MysqlConnectionPool DataSource so that passing of other properties is possible from inside appservers. - Map duplicate key and foreign key errors to SQLState of '23000'. - Backport documentation tooling from 3.1 branch. - Return creating statement for ResultSets created by getGeneratedKeys() (BUG#2957) - Allow java.util.Date to be sent in as parameter to PreparedStatement.setObject(), converting it to a Timestamp to maintain full precision (BUG#3103). - Don't truncate BLOBs/CLOBs when using setBytes() and/or setBinary/CharacterStream() (BUG#2670). - Dynamically configure character set mappings for field-level character sets on MySQL-4.1.0 and newer using 'SHOW COLLATION' when connecting. - Map 'binary' character set to 'US-ASCII' to support DATETIME charset recognition for servers >= 4.1.2 - Use 'SET character_set_results" during initialization to allow any charset to be returned to the driver for result sets. - Use charsetnr returned during connect to encode queries before issuing 'SET NAMES' on MySQL >= 4.1.0. - Add helper methods to ResultSetMetaData (getColumnCharacterEncoding() and getColumnCharacterSet()) to allow end-users to see what charset the driver thinks it should be using for the column. - Only set character_set_results for MySQL >= 4.1.0. - Fixed BUG#3511, StringUtils.escapeSJISByteStream() not covering all eastern double-byte charsets correctly. - Renamed StringUtils.escapeSJISByteStream() to more appropriate escapeEasternUnicodeByteStream(). - Fixed BUG#3554 - Not specifying database in URL caused MalformedURL exception. - Auto-convert MySQL encoding names to Java encoding names if used for characterEncoding property. - Added encoding names that are recognized on some JVMs to fix case where they were reverse-mapped to MySQL encoding names incorrectly. - Use junit.textui.TestRunner for all unit tests (to allow them to be run from the command line outside of Ant or Eclipse). - Fixed BUG#3557 - UpdatableResultSet not picking up default values for moveToInsertRow(). - Fixed BUG#3570 - inconsistent reporting of column type. The server still doesn't return all types for *BLOBs *TEXT correctly, so the driver won't return those correctly. - Fixed BUG#3520 -- DBMD.getSQLStateType() returns incorrect value. - Fixed regression in PreparedStatement.setString() and eastern character encodings. - Made StringRegressionTest 4.1-unicode aware. 02-19-04 - Version 3.0.11-stable - Trigger a 'SET NAMES utf8' when encoding is forced to 'utf8' _or_ 'utf-8' via the 'characterEncoding' property. Previously, only the Java-style encoding name of 'utf-8' would trigger this. - AutoReconnect time was growing faster than exponentially (BUG#2447). - Fixed failover always going to last host in list (BUG#2578) - Added 'useUnbufferedInput' parameter, and now use it by default (due to JVM issue http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4401235.html) - Detect 'on/off' or '1','2','3' form of lower_case_table_names on server. - Return 'java.lang.Integer' for TINYINT and SMALLINT types from ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName() (fix for BUG#2852). - Return 'java.lang.Double' for FLOAT type from ResultSetMetaData. getColumnClassName() (fix for BUG#2855). - Return '[B' instead of java.lang.Object for BINARY, VARBINARY and LONGVARBINARY types from ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName() (JDBC compliance). - Issue connection events on all instances created from a ConnectionPoolDataSource. 01-13-04 - Version 3.0.10-stable - Don't count quoted id's when inside a 'string' in PreparedStatement parsing (fix for BUG#1511). - 'Friendlier' exception message for PacketTooLargeException (BUG#1534). - Backported fix for aliased tables and UpdatableResultSets in checkUpdatability() method from 3.1 branch. - Fix for ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception when using Statement.setMaxRows() (BUG#1695). - Fixed BUG#1576, dealing with large blobs and split packets not being read correctly. - Fixed regression of Statement.getGeneratedKeys() and REPLACE statements. - Fixed BUG#1630, subsequent call to ResultSet.updateFoo() causes NPE if result set is not updatable. - Fix for 4.1.1-style auth with no password. - Fix for BUG#1731, Foreign Keys column sequence is not consistent in DatabaseMetaData.getImported/Exported/CrossReference(). - Fix for BUG#1775 - DatabaseMetaData.getSystemFunction() returning bad function 'VResultsSion'. - Fix for BUG#1592 -- cross-database updatable result sets are not checked for updatability correctly. - DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() should return Types.LONGVARCHAR for MySQL LONGTEXT type. - ResultSet.getObject() on TINYINT and SMALLINT columns should return Java type 'Integer' (BUG#1913) - Added 'alwaysClearStream' connection property, which causes the driver to always empty any remaining data on the input stream before each query. - Added more descriptive error message 'Server Configuration Denies Access to DataSource', as well as retrieval of message from server. - Autoreconnect code didn't set catalog upon reconnect if it had been changed. - Implement ResultSet.updateClob(). - ResultSetMetaData.isCaseSensitive() returned wrong value for CHAR/VARCHAR columns. - Fix for BUG#1933 -- Connection property "maxRows" not honored. - Fix for BUG#1925 -- Statements being created too many times in DBMD.extractForeignKeyFromCreateTable(). - Fix for BUG#1914 -- Support escape sequence {fn convert ... } - Fix for BUG#1958 -- ArrayIndexOutOfBounds when parameter number == number of parameters + 1. - Fix for BUG#2006 -- ResultSet.findColumn() should use first matching column name when there are duplicate column names in SELECT query (JDBC-compliance). - Removed static synchronization bottleneck from PreparedStatement.setTimestamp(). - Removed static synchronization bottleneck from instance factory method of SingleByteCharsetConverter. - Enable caching of the parsing stage of prepared statements via the 'cachePrepStmts', 'prepStmtCacheSize' and 'prepStmtCacheSqlLimit' properties (disabled by default). - Speed up parsing of PreparedStatements, try to use one-pass whenever possible. - Fixed security exception when used in Applets (applets can't read the system property 'file.encoding' which is needed for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE). - Use constants for SQLStates. - Map charset 'ko18_ru' to 'ko18r' when connected to MySQL-4.1.0 or newer. - Ensure that Buffer.writeString() saves room for the \0. - Fixed exception 'Unknown character set 'danish' on connect w/ JDK-1.4.0 - Fixed mappings in SQLError to report deadlocks with SQLStates of '41000'. - 'maxRows' property would affect internal statements, so check it for all statement creation internal to the driver, and set to 0 when it is not. 10-07-03 - Version 3.0.9-stable - Faster date handling code in ResultSet and PreparedStatement (no longer uses Date methods that synchronize on static calendars). - Fixed test for end of buffer in Buffer.readString(). - Fixed ResultSet.previous() behavior to move current position to before result set when on first row of result set (bugs.mysql.com BUG#496) - Fixed Statement and PreparedStatement issuing bogus queries when setMaxRows() had been used and a LIMIT clause was present in the query. - Fixed BUG#661 - refreshRow didn't work when primary key values contained values that needed to be escaped (they ended up being doubly-escaped). - Support InnoDB contraint names when extracting foreign key info in DatabaseMetaData BUG#517 and BUG#664 (impl. ideas from Parwinder Sekhon) - Backported 4.1 protocol changes from 3.1 branch (server-side SQL states, new field info, larger client capability flags, connect-with-database, etc). - Fix UpdatableResultSet to return values for getXXX() when on insert row (BUG#675). - The insertRow in an UpdatableResultSet is now loaded with the default column values when moveToInsertRow() is called (BUG#688) - DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() wasn't returning NULL for default values that are specified as NULL. - Change default statement type/concurrency to TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY and CONCUR_READ_ONLY (spec compliance). - Don't try and reset isolation level on reconnect if MySQL doesn't support them. - Don't wrap SQLExceptions in RowDataDynamic. - Don't change timestamp TZ twice if useTimezone==true (BUG#774) - Fixed regression in large split-packet handling (BUG#848). - Better diagnostic error messages in exceptions for 'streaming' result sets. - Issue exception on ResultSet.getXXX() on empty result set (wasn't caught in some cases). - Don't hide messages from exceptions thrown in I/O layers. - Don't fire connection closed events when closing pooled connections, or on PooledConnection.getConnection() with already open connections (BUG#884). - Clip +/- INF (to smallest and largest representative values for the type in MySQL) and NaN (to 0) for setDouble/setFloat(), and issue a warning on the statement when the server does not support +/- INF or NaN. - Fix for BUG#879, double-escaping of '\' when charset is SJIS or GBK and '\' appears in non-escaped input. - When emptying input stream of unused rows for 'streaming' result sets, have the current thread yield() every 100 rows in order to not monopolize CPU time. - Fixed BUG#1099, DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() getting confused about the keyword 'set' in character columns. - Fixed deadlock issue with Statement.setMaxRows(). - Fixed CLOB.truncate(), BUG#1130 - Optimized CLOB.setChracterStream(), BUG#1131 - Made databaseName, portNumber and serverName optional parameters for MysqlDataSourceFactory (BUG#1246) - Fix for BUG#1247 -- ResultSet.get/setString mashing char 127 - Backported auth. changes for 4.1.1 and newer from 3.1 branch. - Added com.mysql.jdbc.util.BaseBugReport to help creation of testcases for bug reports. - Added property to 'clobber' streaming results, by setting the 'clobberStreamingResults' property to 'true' (the default is 'false'). This will cause a 'streaming' ResultSet to be automatically closed, and any oustanding data still streaming from the server to be discarded if another query is executed before all the data has been read from the server. 05-23-03 - Version 3.0.8-stable - Allow bogus URLs in Driver.getPropertyInfo(). - Return list of generated keys when using multi-value INSERTS with Statement.getGeneratedKeys(). - Use JVM charset with filenames and 'LOAD DATA [LOCAL] INFILE' - Fix infinite loop with Connection.cleanup(). - Changed Ant target 'compile-core' to 'compile-driver', and made testsuite compilation a separate target. - Fixed result set not getting set for Statement.executeUpdate(), which affected getGeneratedKeys() and getUpdateCount() in some cases. - Unicode character 0xFFFF in a string would cause the driver to throw an ArrayOutOfBoundsException (Bug #378) - Return correct amount of generated keys when using 'REPLACE' statements. - Fix problem detecting server character set in some cases. - Fix row data decoding error when using _very_ large packets. - Optimized row data decoding. - Issue exception when operating on an already-closed prepared statement. - Fixed SJIS encoding bug, thanks to Naoto Sato. - Optimized usage of EscapeProcessor. - Allow multiple calls to Statement.close() 04-08-03 - Version 3.0.7-stable - Fixed MysqlPooledConnection.close() calling wrong event type. - Fixed StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in PreparedStatement. setClob(). - 4.1 Column Metadata fixes - Remove synchronization from Driver.connect() and Driver.acceptsUrl(). - IOExceptions during a transaction now cause the Connection to be closed. - Fixed missing conversion for 'YEAR' type in ResultSetMetaData. getColumnTypeName(). - Don't pick up indexes that start with 'pri' as primary keys for DBMD.getPrimaryKeys(). - Throw SQLExceptions when trying to do operations on a forcefully closed Connection (i.e. when a communication link failure occurs). - You can now toggle profiling on/off using Connection.setProfileSql(boolean). - Fixed charset issues with database metadata (charset was not getting set correctly). - Updatable ResultSets can now be created for aliased tables/columns when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer. - Fixed 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE' bug when file > max_allowed_packet. - Fixed escaping of 0x5c ('\') character for GBK and Big5 charsets. - Fixed ResultSet.getTimestamp() when underlying field is of type DATE. - Ensure that packet size from alignPacketSize() does not exceed MAX_ALLOWED_PACKET (JVM bug) - Don't reset Connection.isReadOnly() when autoReconnecting. 02-18-03 - Version 3.0.6-stable - Fixed ResultSetMetaData to return "" when catalog not known. Fixes NullPointerExceptions with Sun's CachedRowSet. - Fixed DBMD.getTypeInfo() and DBMD.getColumns() returning different value for precision in TEXT/BLOB types. - Allow ignoring of warning for 'non transactional tables' during rollback (compliance/usability) by setting 'ignoreNonTxTables' property to 'true'. - Fixed SQLExceptions getting swallowed on initial connect. - Fixed Statement.setMaxRows() to stop sending 'LIMIT' type queries when not needed (performance) - Clean up Statement query/method mismatch tests (i.e. INSERT not allowed with .executeQuery()). - More checks added in ResultSet traversal method to catch when in closed state. - Fixed ResultSetMetaData.isWritable() to return correct value. - Add 'window' of different NULL sorting behavior to DBMD.nullsAreSortedAtStart (4.0.2 to 4.0.10, true, otherwise, no). - Implemented Blob.setBytes(). You still need to pass the resultant Blob back into an updatable ResultSet or PreparedStatement to persist the changes, as MySQL does not support 'locators'. - Backported 4.1 charset field info changes from Connector/J 3.1 01-22-03 - Version 3.0.5-gamma - Fixed Buffer.fastSkipLenString() causing ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exceptions with some queries when unpacking fields. - Implemented an empty TypeMap for Connection.getTypeMap() so that some third-party apps work with MySQL (IBM WebSphere 5.0 Connection pool). - Added missing LONGTEXT type to DBMD.getColumns(). - Retrieve TX_ISOLATION from database for Connection.getTransactionIsolation() when the MySQL version supports it, instead of an instance variable. - Quote table names in DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(), getPrimaryKeys(), getIndexInfo(), getBestRowIdentifier() - Greatly reduce memory required for setBinaryStream() in PreparedStatements. - Fixed ResultSet.isBeforeFirst() for empty result sets. - Added update options for foreign key metadata. 01-06-03 - Version 3.0.4-gamma - Added quoted identifiers to database names for Connection.setCatalog. - Added support for quoted identifiers in PreparedStatement parser. - Streamlined character conversion and byte[] handling in PreparedStatements for setByte(). - Reduce memory footprint of PreparedStatements by sharing outbound packet with MysqlIO. - Added 'strictUpdates' property to allow control of amount of checking for 'correctness' of updatable result sets. Set this to 'false' if you want faster updatable result sets and you know that you create them from SELECTs on tables with primary keys and that you have selected all primary keys in your query. - Added support for 4.0.8-style large packets. - Fixed PreparedStatement.executeBatch() parameter overwriting. 12-17-02 - Version 3.0.3-dev - Changed charsToByte in SingleByteCharConverter to be non-static - Changed SingleByteCharConverter to use lazy initialization of each converter. - Fixed charset handling in Fields.java - Implemented Connection.nativeSQL() - More robust escape tokenizer -- recognize '--' comments, and allow nested escape sequences (see testsuite.EscapeProcessingTest) - DBMD.getImported/ExportedKeys() now handles multiple foreign keys per table. - Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getPrecision() returning incorrect values for some floating point types. - Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getColumnTypeName() returning BLOB for TEXT and TEXT for BLOB types. - Fixed Buffer.isLastDataPacket() for 4.1 and newer servers. - Added CLIENT_LONG_FLAG to be able to get more column flags (isAutoIncrement() being the most important) - Because of above, implemented ResultSetMetaData.isAutoIncrement() to use Field.isAutoIncrement(). - Honor 'lower_case_table_names' when enabled in the server when doing table name comparisons in DatabaseMetaData methods. - Some MySQL-4.1 protocol support (extended field info from selects) - Use non-aliased table/column names and database names to fullly qualify tables and columns in UpdatableResultSet (requires MySQL-4.1 or newer) - Allow user to alter behavior of Statement/ PreparedStatement.executeBatch() via 'continueBatchOnError' property (defaults to 'true'). - Check for connection closed in more Connection methods (createStatement, prepareStatement, setTransactionIsolation, setAutoCommit). - More robust implementation of updatable result sets. Checks that _all_ primary keys of the table have been selected. - 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ...' now works, if your server is configured to allow it. Can be turned off with the 'allowLoadLocalInfile' property (see the README). - Substitute '?' for unknown character conversions in single-byte character sets instead of '\0'. - NamedPipeSocketFactory now works (only intended for Windows), see README for instructions. 11-08-02 - Version 3.0.2-dev - Fixed issue with updatable result sets and PreparedStatements not working - Fixed ResultSet.setFetchDirection(FETCH_UNKNOWN) - Fixed issue when calling Statement.setFetchSize() when using arbitrary values - Fixed incorrect conversion in ResultSet.getLong() - Implemented ResultSet.updateBlob(). - Removed duplicate code from UpdatableResultSet (it can be inherited from ResultSet, the extra code for each method to handle updatability I thought might someday be necessary has not been needed). - Fixed "UnsupportedEncodingException" thrown when "forcing" a character encoding via properties. - Fixed various non-ASCII character encoding issues. - Added driver property 'useHostsInPrivileges'. Defaults to true. Affects whether or not '@hostname' will be used in DBMD.getColumn/TablePrivileges. - All DBMD result set columns describing schemas now return NULL to be more compliant with the behavior of other JDBC drivers for other databases (MySQL does not support schemas). - Added SSL support. See README for information on how to use it. - Properly restore connection properties when autoReconnecting or failing-over, including autoCommit state, and isolation level. - Use 'SHOW CREATE TABLE' when possible for determining foreign key information for DatabaseMetaData...also allows cascade options for DELETE information to be returned - Escape 0x5c character in strings for the SJIS charset. - Fixed start position off-by-1 error in Clob.getSubString() - Implemented Clob.truncate() - Implemented Clob.setString() - Implemented Clob.setAsciiStream() - Implemented Clob.setCharacterStream() - Added com.mysql.jdbc.MiniAdmin class, which allows you to send 'shutdown' command to MySQL server...Intended to be used when 'embedding' Java and MySQL server together in an end-user application. - Added 'connectTimeout' parameter that allows users of JDK-1.4 and newer to specify a maxium time to wait to establish a connection. - Failover and autoReconnect only work when the connection is in a autoCommit(false) state, in order to stay transaction safe - Added 'queriesBeforeRetryMaster' property that specifies how many queries to issue when failed over before attempting to reconnect to the master (defaults to 50) - Fixed DBMD.supportsResultSetConcurrency() so that it returns true for ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE and ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY or ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE - Fixed ResultSet.isLast() for empty result sets (should return false). - PreparedStatement now honors stream lengths in setBinary/Ascii/Character Stream() unless you set the connection property 'useStreamLengthsInPrepStmts' to 'false'. - Removed some not-needed temporary object creation by using Strings smarter in EscapeProcessor, Connection and DatabaseMetaData classes. 09-21-02 - Version 3.0.1-dev - Fixed ResultSet.getRow() off-by-one bug. - Fixed RowDataStatic.getAt() off-by-one bug. - Added limited Clob functionality (ResultSet.getClob(), PreparedStatemtent.setClob(), PreparedStatement.setObject(Clob). - Added socketTimeout parameter to URL. - Connection.isClosed() no longer "pings" the server. - Connection.close() issues rollback() when getAutoCommit() == false - Added "paranoid" parameter...sanitizes error messages removing "sensitive" information from them (i.e. hostnames, ports, usernames, etc.), as well as clearing "sensitive" data structures when possible. - Fixed ResultSetMetaData.isSigned() for TINYINT and BIGINT. - Charsets now automatically detected. Optimized code for single-byte character set conversion. - Implemented ResultSet.getCharacterStream() - Added "LOCAL TEMPORARY" to table types in DatabaseMetaData.getTableTypes() - Massive code clean-up to follow Java coding conventions (the time had come) 07-31-02 - Version 3.0.0-dev - !!! LICENSE CHANGE !!! The driver is now GPL. If you need non-GPL licenses, please contact me <mark@mysql.com> - JDBC-3.0 functionality including Statement/PreparedStatement.getGeneratedKeys() and ResultSet.getURL() - Performance enchancements - driver is now 50-100% faster in most situations, and creates fewer temporary objects - Repackaging...new driver name is "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver", old name still works, though (the driver is now provided by MySQL-AB) - Better checking for closed connections in Statement and PreparedStatement. - Support for streaming (row-by-row) result sets (see README) Thanks to Doron. - Support for large packets (new addition to MySQL-4.0 protocol), see README for more information. - JDBC Compliance -- Passes all tests besides stored procedure tests - Fix and sort primary key names in DBMetaData (SF bugs 582086 and 582086) - Float types now reported as java.sql.Types.FLOAT (SF bug 579573) - ResultSet.getTimestamp() now works for DATE types (SF bug 559134) - ResultSet.getDate/Time/Timestamp now recognizes all forms of invalid values that have been set to all zeroes by MySQL (SF bug 586058) - Testsuite now uses Junit (which you can get from www.junit.org) - The driver now only works with JDK-1.2 or newer. - Added multi-host failover support (see README) - General source-code cleanup. - Overall speed improvements via controlling transient object creation in MysqlIO class when reading packets - Performance improvements in string handling and field metadata creation (lazily instantiated) contributed by Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes 05-16-02 - Version 2.0.14 - More code cleanup - PreparedStatement now releases resources on .close() (SF bug 553268) - Quoted identifiers not used if server version does not support them. Also, if server started with --ansi or --sql-mode=ANSI_QUOTES then '"' will be used as an identifier quote, otherwise '`' will be used. - ResultSet.getDouble() now uses code built into JDK to be more precise (but slower) - LogicalHandle.isClosed() calls through to physical connection - Added SQL profiling (to STDERR). Set "profileSql=true" in your JDBC url. See README for more information. - Fixed typo for relaxAutoCommit parameter. 04-24-02 - Version 2.0.13 - More code cleanup. - Fixed unicode chars being read incorrectly (SF bug 541088) - Faster blob escaping for PrepStmt - Added set/getPortNumber() to DataSource(s) (SF bug 548167) - Added setURL() to MySQLXADataSource (SF bug 546019) - PreparedStatement.toString() fixed (SF bug 534026) - ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName() now implemented - Rudimentary version of Statement.getGeneratedKeys() from JDBC-3.0 now implemented (you need to be using JDK-1.4 for this to work, I believe) - DBMetaData.getIndexInfo() - bad PAGES fixed (SF BUG 542201) 04-07-02 - Version 2.0.12 - General code cleanup. - Added getIdleFor() method to Connection and MysqlLogicalHandle. - Relaxed synchronization in all classes, should fix 520615 and 520393. - Added getTable/ColumnPrivileges() to DBMD (fixes 484502). - Added new types to getTypeInfo(), fixed existing types thanks to Al Davis and Kid Kalanon. - Added support for BIT types (51870) to PreparedStatement. - Fixed getRow() bug (527165) in ResultSet - Fixes for ResultSet updatability in PreparedStatement. - Fixed timezone off by 1-hour bug in PreparedStatement (538286, 528785). - ResultSet: Fixed updatability (values being set to null if not updated). - DataSources - fixed setUrl bug (511614, 525565), wrong datasource class name (532816, 528767) - Added identifier quoting to all DatabaseMetaData methods that need them (should fix 518108) - Added support for YEAR type (533556) - ResultSet.insertRow() should now detect auto_increment fields in most cases and use that value in the new row. This detection will not work in multi-valued keys, however, due to the fact that the MySQL protocol does not return this information. - ResultSet.refreshRow() implemented. - Fixed testsuite.Traversal afterLast() bug, thanks to Igor Lastric. 01-27-02 - Version 2.0.11 - Fixed missing DELETE_RULE value in DBMD.getImported/ExportedKeys() and getCrossReference(). - Full synchronization of Statement.java. - More changes to fix "Unexpected end of input stream" errors when reading BLOBs. This should be the last fix. 01-24-02 - Version 2.0.10 - Fixed spurious "Unexpected end of input stream" errors in MysqlIO (bug 507456). - Fixed null-pointer-exceptions when using MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource with Websphere 4 (bug 505839). 01-13-02 - Version 2.0.9 - Ant build was corrupting included jar files, fixed (bug 487669). - Fixed extra memory allocation in MysqlIO.readPacket() (bug 488663). - Implementation of DatabaseMetaData.getExported/ImportedKeys() and getCrossReference(). - Full synchronization on methods modifying instance and class-shared references, driver should be entirely thread-safe now (please let me know if you have problems) - DataSource implementations moved to org.gjt.mm.mysql.jdbc2.optional package, and (initial) implementations of PooledConnectionDataSource and XADataSource are in place (thanks to Todd Wolff for the implementation and testing of PooledConnectionDataSource with IBM WebSphere 4). - Added detection of network connection being closed when reading packets (thanks to Todd Lizambri). - Fixed quoting error with escape processor (bug 486265). - Report batch update support through DatabaseMetaData (bug 495101). - Fixed off-by-one-hour error in PreparedStatement.setTimestamp() (bug 491577). - Removed concatenation support from driver (the '||' operator), as older versions of VisualAge seem to be the only thing that use it, and it conflicts with the logical '||' operator. You will need to start mysqld with the "--ansi" flag to use the '||' operator as concatenation (bug 491680) - Fixed casting bug in PreparedStatement (bug 488663). 11-25-01 - Version 2.0.8 - Batch updates now supported (thanks to some inspiration from Daniel Rall). - XADataSource/ConnectionPoolDataSource code (experimental) - PreparedStatement.setAnyNumericType() now handles positive exponents correctly (adds "+" so MySQL can understand it). - DatabaseMetaData.getPrimaryKeys() and getBestRowIdentifier() are now more robust in identifying primary keys (matches regardless of case or abbreviation/full spelling of Primary Key in Key_type column). 10-24-01 - Version 2.0.7 - PreparedStatement.setCharacterStream() now implemented - Fixed dangling socket problem when in high availability (autoReconnect=true) mode, and finalizer for Connection will close any dangling sockets on GC. - Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getPrecision() returning one less than actual on newer versions of MySQL. - ResultSet.getBlob() now returns null if column value was null. - Character sets read from database if useUnicode=true and characterEncoding is not set. (thanks to Dmitry Vereshchagin) - Initial transaction isolation level read from database (if avaialable) (thanks to Dmitry Vereshchagin) - Fixed DatabaseMetaData.supportsTransactions(), and supportsTransactionIsolationLevel() and getTypeInfo() SQL_DATETIME_SUB and SQL_DATA_TYPE fields not being readable. - Fixed PreparedStatement generating SQL that would end up with syntax errors for some queries. - Fixed ResultSet.isAfterLast() always returning false. - Fixed timezone issue in PreparedStatement.setTimestamp() (thanks to Erik Olofsson) - Captialize type names when "captializeTypeNames=true" is passed in URL or properties (for WebObjects, thanks to Anjo Krank) - Updatable result sets now correctly handle NULL values in fields. - PreparedStatement.setDouble() now uses full-precision doubles (reverting a fix made earlier to truncate them). - PreparedStatement.setBoolean() will use 1/0 for values if your MySQL Version >= 3.21.23. 06-16-01 - Version 2.0.6 - Fixed PreparedStatement parameter checking - Fixed case-sensitive column names in ResultSet.java 06-13-01 - Version 2.0.5 - Fixed ResultSet.getBlob() ArrayIndex out-of-bounds - Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getColumnTypeName for TEXT/BLOB - Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBounds when sending large BLOB queries (Max size packet was not being set) - Added ISOLATION level support to Connection.setIsolationLevel() - Fixed NPE on PreparedStatement.executeUpdate() when all columns have not been set. - Fixed data parsing of TIMESTAMPs with 2-digit years - Added Byte to PreparedStatement.setObject() - ResultSet.getBoolean() now recognizes '-1' as 'true' - ResultSet has +/-Inf/inf support - ResultSet.insertRow() works now, even if not all columns are set (they will be set to "NULL") - DataBaseMetaData.getCrossReference() no longer ArrayIndexOOB - getObject() on ResultSet correctly does TINYINT->Byte and SMALLINT->Short 12-03-00 - Version 2.0.3 - Implemented getBigDecimal() without scale component for JDBC2. - Fixed composite key problem with updateable result sets. - Added detection of -/+INF for doubles. - Faster ASCII string operations. - Fixed incorrect detection of MAX_ALLOWED_PACKET, so sending large blobs should work now. - Fixed off-by-one error in java.sql.Blob implementation code. - Added "ultraDevHack" URL parameter, set to "true" to allow (broken) Macromedia UltraDev to use the driver. 04-06-00 - Version 2.0.1 - Fixed RSMD.isWritable() returning wrong value. Thanks to Moritz Maass. - Cleaned up exception handling when driver connects - Columns that are of type TEXT now return as Strings when you use getObject() - DatabaseMetaData.getPrimaryKeys() now works correctly wrt to key_seq. Thanks to Brian Slesinsky. - No escape processing is done on PreparedStatements anymore per JDBC spec. - Fixed many JDBC-2.0 traversal, positioning bugs, especially wrt to empty result sets. Thanks to Ron Smits, Nick Brook, Cessar Garcia and Carlos Martinez. - Fixed some issues with updatability support in ResultSet when using multiple primary keys. 02-21-00 - Version 2.0pre5 - Fixed Bad Handshake problem. 01-10-00 - Version 2.0pre4 - Fixes to ResultSet for insertRow() - Thanks to Cesar Garcia - Fix to Driver to recognize JDBC-2.0 by loading a JDBC-2.0 class, instead of relying on JDK version numbers. Thanks to John Baker. - Fixed ResultSet to return correct row numbers - Statement.getUpdateCount() now returns rows matched, instead of rows actually updated, which is more SQL-92 like. 10-29-99 - Statement/PreparedStatement.getMoreResults() bug fixed. Thanks to Noel J. Bergman. - Added Short as a type to PreparedStatement.setObject(). Thanks to Jeff Crowder - Driver now automagically configures maximum/preferred packet sizes by querying server. - Autoreconnect code uses fast ping command if server supports it. - Fixed various bugs wrt. to packet sizing when reading from the server and when alloc'ing to write to the server. 08-17-99 - Version 2.0pre - Now compiles under JDK-1.2. The driver supports both JDK-1.1 and JDK-1.2 at the same time through a core set of classes. The driver will load the appropriate interface classes at runtime by figuring out which JVM version you are using. - Fixes for result sets with all nulls in the first row. (Pointed out by Tim Endres) - Fixes to column numbers in SQLExceptions in ResultSet (Thanks to Blas Rodriguez Somoza) - The database no longer needs to specified to connect. (Thanks to Christian Motschke) 07-04-99 - Version 1.2b - Better Documentation (in progress), in doc/mm.doc/book1.html - DBMD now allows null for a column name pattern (not in spec), which it changes to '%'. - DBMD now has correct types/lengths for getXXX(). - ResultSet.getDate(), getTime(), and getTimestamp() fixes. (contributed by Alan Wilken) - EscapeProcessor now handles \{ \} and { or } inside quotes correctly. (thanks to Alik for some ideas on how to fix it) - Fixes to properties handling in Connection. (contributed by Juho Tikkala) - ResultSet.getObject() now returns null for NULL columns in the table, rather than bombing out. (thanks to Ben Grosman) - ResultSet.getObject() now returns Strings for types from MySQL that it doesn't know about. (Suggested by Chris Perdue) - Removed DataInput/Output streams, not needed, 1/2 number of method calls per IO operation. - Use default character encoding if one is not specified. This is a work-around for broken JVMs, because according to spec, EVERY JVM must support "ISO8859_1", but they don't. - Fixed Connection to use the platform character encoding instead of "ISO8859_1" if one isn't explicitly set. This fixes problems people were having loading the character- converter classes that didn't always exist (JVM bug). (thanks to Fritz Elfert for pointing out this problem) - Changed MysqlIO to re-use packets where possible to reduce memory usage. - Fixed escape-processor bugs pertaining to {} inside quotes. 04-14-99 - Version 1.2a - Fixed character-set support for non-Javasoft JVMs (thanks to many people for pointing it out) - Fixed ResultSet.getBoolean() to recognize 'y' & 'n' as well as '1' & '0' as boolean flags. (thanks to Tim Pizey) - Fixed ResultSet.getTimestamp() to give better performance. (thanks to Richard Swift) - Fixed getByte() for numeric types. (thanks to Ray Bellis) - Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getTypeInfo() for DATE type. (thanks to Paul Johnston) - Fixed EscapeProcessor for "fn" calls. (thanks to Piyush Shah at locomotive.org) - Fixed EscapeProcessor to not do extraneous work if there are no escape codes. (thanks to Ryan Gustafson) - Fixed Driver to parse URLs of the form "jdbc:mysql://host:port" (thanks to Richard Lobb) 03-24-99 - Version 1.1i - Fixed Timestamps for PreparedStatements - Fixed null pointer exceptions in RSMD and RS - Re-compiled with jikes for valid class files (thanks ms!) 03-08-99 - Version 1.1h - Fixed escape processor to deal with un-matched { and } (thanks to Craig Coles) - Fixed escape processor to create more portable (between DATETIME and TIMESTAMP types) representations so that it will work with BETWEEN clauses. (thanks to Craig Longman) - MysqlIO.quit() now closes the socket connection. Before, after many failed connections some OS's would run out of file descriptors. (thanks to Michael Brinkman) - Fixed NullPointerException in Driver.getPropertyInfo. (thanks to Dave Potts) - Fixes to MysqlDefs to allow all *text fields to be retrieved as Strings. (thanks to Chris at Leverage) - Fixed setDouble in PreparedStatement for large numbers to avoid sending scientific notation to the database. (thanks to J.S. Ferguson) - Fixed getScale() and getPrecision() in RSMD. (contrib'd by James Klicman) - Fixed getObject() when field was DECIMAL or NUMERIC (thanks to Bert Hobbs) - DBMD.getTables() bombed when passed a null table-name pattern. Fixed. (thanks to Richard Lobb) - Added check for "client not authorized" errors during connect. (thanks to Hannes Wallnoefer) 02-19-99 - Version 1.1g - Result set rows are now byte arrays. Blobs and Unicode work bidriectonally now. The useUnicode and encoding options are implemented now. - Fixes to PreparedStatement to send binary set by setXXXStream to be sent un-touched to the MySQL server. - Fixes to getDriverPropertyInfo(). 12-31-98 - Version 1.1f - Changed all ResultSet fields to Strings, this should allow Unicode to work, but your JVM must be able to convert between the character sets. This should also make reading data from the server be a bit quicker, because there is now no conversion from StringBuffer to String. - Changed PreparedStatement.streamToString() to be more efficient (code from Uwe Schaefer). - URL parsing is more robust (throws SQL exceptions on errors rather than NullPointerExceptions) - PreparedStatement now can convert Strings to Time/Date values via setObject() (code from Robert Currey). - IO no longer hangs in Buffer.readInt(), that bug was introduced in 1.1d when changing to all byte-arrays for result sets. (Pointed out by Samo Login) 11-03-98 - Version 1.1b - Fixes to DatabaseMetaData to allow both IBM VA and J-Builder to work. Let me know how it goes. (thanks to Jac Kersing) - Fix to ResultSet.getBoolean() for NULL strings (thanks to Barry Lagerweij) - Beginning of code cleanup, and formatting. Getting ready to branch this off to a parallel JDBC-2.0 source tree. - Added "final" modifier to critical sections in MysqlIO and Buffer to allow compiler to inline methods for speed. 9-29-98 - If object references passed to setXXX() in PreparedStatement are null, setNull() is automatically called for you. (Thanks for the suggestion goes to Erik Ostrom) - setObject() in PreparedStatement will now attempt to write a serialized representation of the object to the database for objects of Types.OTHER and objects of unknown type. - Util now has a static method readObject() which given a ResultSet and a column index will re-instantiate an object serialized in the above manner. 9-02-98 - Vesion 1.1 - Got rid of "ugly hack" in MysqlIO.nextRow(). Rather than catch an exception, Buffer.isLastDataPacket() was fixed. - Connection.getCatalog() and Connection.setCatalog() should work now. - Statement.setMaxRows() works, as well as setting by property maxRows. Statement.setMaxRows() overrides maxRows set via properties or url parameters. - Automatic re-connection is available. Because it has to "ping" the database before each query, it is turned off by default. To use it, pass in "autoReconnect=true" in the connection URL. You may also change the number of reconnect tries, and the initial timeout value via "maxReconnects=n" (default 3) and "initialTimeout=n" (seconds, default 2) parameters. The timeout is an exponential backoff type of timeout, e.g. if you have initial timeout of 2 seconds, and maxReconnects of 3, then the driver will timeout 2 seconds, 4 seconds, then 16 seconds between each re-connection attempt. 8-24-98 - Version 1.0 - Fixed handling of blob data in Buffer.java - Fixed bug with authentication packet being sized too small. - The JDBC Driver is now under the LPGL 8-14-98 - - Fixed Buffer.readLenString() to correctly read data for BLOBS. - Fixed PreparedStatement.stringToStream to correctly read data for BLOBS. - Fixed PreparedStatement.setDate() to not add a day. (above fixes thanks to Vincent Partington) - Added URL parameter parsing (?user=... etc). 8-04-98 - Version 0.9d - Big news! New package name. Tim Endres from ICE Engineering is starting a new source tree for GNU GPL'd Java software. He's graciously given me the org.gjt.mm package directory to use, so now the driver is in the org.gjt.mm.mysql package scheme. I'm "legal" now. Look for more information on Tim's project soon. - Now using dynamically sized packets to reduce memory usage when sending commands to the DB. - Small fixes to getTypeInfo() for parameters, etc. - DatabaseMetaData is now fully implemented. Let me know if these drivers work with the various IDEs out there. I've heard that they're working with JBuilder right now. - Added JavaDoc documentation to the package. - Package now available in .zip or .tar.gz. 7-28-98 - Version 0.9 - Implemented getTypeInfo(). Connection.rollback() now throws an SQLException per the JDBC spec. - Added PreparedStatement that supports all JDBC API methods for PreparedStatement including InputStreams. Please check this out and let me know if anything is broken. - Fixed a bug in ResultSet that would break some queries that only returned 1 row. - Fixed bugs in DatabaseMetaData.getTables(), DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() and DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs(). - Added functionality to Statement that allows executeUpdate() to store values for IDs that are automatically generated for AUTO_INCREMENT fields. Basically, after an executeUpdate(), look at the SQLWarnings for warnings like "LAST_INSERTED_ID = 'some number', COMMAND = 'your SQL query'". If you are using AUTO_INCREMENT fields in your tables and are executing a lot of executeUpdate()s on one Statement, be sure to clearWarnings() every so often to save memory. 7-06-98 - Version 0.8 - Split MysqlIO and Buffer to separate classes. Some ClassLoaders gave an IllegalAccess error for some fields in those two classes. Now mm.mysql works in applets and all classloaders. Thanks to Joe Ennis <jce@mail.boone.com> for pointing out the problem and working on a fix with me. 7-01-98 - Version 0.7 - Fixed DatabaseMetadata problems in getColumns() and bug in switch statement in the Field constructor. Thanks to Costin Manolache <costin@tdiinc.com> for pointing these out. 5-21-98 - Version 0.6 - Incorporated efficiency changes from Richard Swift <Richard.Swift@kanatek.ca> in MysqlIO.java and ResultSet.java - We're now 15% faster than gwe's driver. - Started working on DatabaseMetaData. The following methods are implemented: * getTables() * getTableTypes() * getColumns * getCatalogs()