MySQL Connector/J Documentation

Mark Matthews

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. What is MySQL Connector/J?
1.2. Release Notes
1.2.1. Upgrading
1.2.2. Known Issues
2. Installation
2.1. System Requirements
2.1.1. Java Versions Supported
2.1.2. MySQL Server Versions Supported
2.2. Installing MySQL Connector/J
2.2.1. Setting the CLASSPATH (For Standalone Use)
2.2.2. Driver Class Name and JDBC URL Format
2.2.3. Installing MySQL Connector/J for Use With Servlets/JSP/EJB
2.3. What's Next?
3. Developing Applications with MySQL Connector/J
3.1. Basic Functionality
3.1.1. Registering MySQL Connector/J With the JDBC DriverManager
3.1.2. Opening a Connection to MySQL
3.1.3. Creating a Statement Instance
3.1.4. Executing a SELECT Query
3.2. Advanced Functionality
3.2.1. Character Sets and Unicode
3.2.2. Stored Procedures
3.2.3. Connecting over SSL
4. How to Report Bugs or Problems
5. Troubleshooting
A. Reference
A.1. Type Conversions Supported by MySQL Connector/J
B. How Connector/J Maps MySQL Errors to SQLStates
C. ChangeLog

List of Tables

2.1. Connection Properties
3.1. MySQL to Java Encoding Name Translations
A.1. Conversion Table
A.2. Unsigned Types Mapping
B.1. Mapping of MySQL Error Numbers to SQLStates

List of Examples

2.1. Setting the CLASSPATH Under UNIX
2.2. Setting the CLASSPATH Under Microsoft Windows 9X
3.1. Registering the Driver With the DriverManager
3.2. Obtaining a Connection From the DriverManager
3.3. Using java.sql.Statement to Execute a SELECT Query
3.4. Stored Procedure Example
3.5. Using Connection.prepareCall()
3.6. Registering Output Parameters
3.7. Setting CallableStatement Input Parameters
3.8. Retrieving Results and Output Parameter Values
5.1. Example of transaction with retry logic

Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

1.1. What is MySQL Connector/J?
1.2. Release Notes
1.2.1. Upgrading
1.2.2. Known Issues

1.1. What is MySQL Connector/J?

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:

1.2. Release Notes

1.2.1. Upgrading

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.

1.2.1.1. Upgrading from MySQL Connector/J 3.0 to 3.1

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

1.2.1.2. JDBC-Specific Issues When Upgrading to MySQL Server Version 4.1 or Newer

  • 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

1.2.2. Known Issues

1.2.2.1. Implementation Notes (By java.sql and javax.sql Interface/Class)

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

1.2.2.2. Un-implemented Functionality

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)

Chapter 2. Installation

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.

2.1. System Requirements

2.1.1. Java Versions Supported

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.

2.1.2. MySQL Server Versions Supported

MySQL Connector/J supports all known MySQL server versions. Some features (foreign keys, updatable result sets) require more recent versions of MySQL to operate.

2.1.2.1. Version Guidelines

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.

2.2. Installing MySQL Connector/J

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).

2.2.1. Setting the CLASSPATH (For Standalone Use)

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.

2.2.2. Driver Class Name and JDBC URL Format

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 NameDefinitionRequired?Default ValueSince Version
Connection/Authentication
userThe user to connect asNo all
passwordThe password to use when connectingNo all
socketFactoryThe 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.Nocom.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory3.0.3
connectTimeoutTimeout for socket connect (in milliseconds), with 0 being no timeout. Only works on JDK-1.4 or newer. Defaults to '0'.No03.0.1
socketTimeoutTimeout on network socket operations (0, the default means no timeout).No03.0.1
useConfigsLoad 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
interactiveClientSet the CLIENT_INTERACTIVE flag, which tells MySQL to timeout connections based on INTERACTIVE_TIMEOUT instead of WAIT_TIMEOUTNofalse3.1.0
propertiesTransformAn implementation of com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionPropertiesTransform that the driver will use to modify URL properties passed to the driver before attempting a connectionNo 3.1.4
useCompressionUse zlib compression when communicating with the server (true/false)? Defaults to 'false'.Nofalse3.1.0
High Availability and Clustering
autoReconnectShould the driver try to re-establish bad connections?Nofalse1.1
autoReconnectForPoolsUse a reconnection strategy appropriate for connection pools (defaults to 'false')Nofalse3.1.3
failOverReadOnlyWhen failing over in autoReconnect mode, should the connection be set to 'read-only'?Notrue3.0.12
maxReconnectsMaximum number of reconnects to attempt if autoReconnect is true, default is '3'.No31.1
initialTimeoutIf autoReconnect is enabled, the initial time to wait between re-connect attempts (in seconds, defaults to '2').No21.1
queriesBeforeRetryMasterNumber 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.No503.0.2
secondsBeforeRetryMasterHow 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 30No303.0.2
Security
allowMultiQueriesAllow the use of ';' to delimit multiple queries during one statement (true/false, defaults to 'false'Nofalse3.1.1
useSSLUse SSL when communicating with the server (true/false), defaults to 'false'Nofalse3.0.2
requireSSLRequire SSL connection if useSSL=true? (defaults to 'false').Nofalse3.1.0
allowUrlInLocalInfileShould the driver allow URLs in 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE' statements?Nofalse3.1.4
paranoidTake measures to prevent exposure sensitive information in error messages and clear data structures holding sensitive data when possible? (defaults to 'false')Nofalse3.0.1
Performance Extensions
metadataCacheSizeThe number of queries to cacheResultSetMetadata for if cacheResultSetMetaData is set to 'true' (default 50)No503.1.1
prepStmtCacheSizeIf prepared statement caching is enabled, how many prepared statements should be cached?No253.0.10
prepStmtCacheSqlLimitIf prepared statement caching is enabled, what's the largest SQL the driver will cache the parsing for?No2563.0.10
alwaysSendSetIsolationShould 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.Notrue3.1.7
cacheCallableStmtsShould the driver cache the parsing stage of CallableStatementsNofalse3.1.2
cachePrepStmtsShould the driver cache the parsing stage of PreparedStatements?Nofalse3.0.10
cacheResultSetMetadataShould the driver cache ResultSetMetaData for Statements and PreparedStatements? (Req. JDK-1.4+, true/false, default 'false')Nofalse3.1.1
cacheServerConfigurationShould the driver cache the results of 'SHOW VARIABLES' and 'SHOW COLLATION' on a per-URL basis?Nofalse3.1.5
dontTrackOpenResourcesThe 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.Nofalse3.1.7
dynamicCalendarsShould the driver retrieve the default calendar when required, or cache it per connection/session?Nofalse3.1.5
elideSetAutoCommitsIf 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)?Nofalse3.1.3
holdResultsOpenOverStatementCloseShould the driver close result sets on Statement.close() as required by the JDBC specification?Nofalse3.1.7
useFastIntParsingUse internal String->Integer conversion routines to avoid excessive object creation?Notrue3.1.4
useLocalSessionStateShould 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?Nofalse3.1.7
useNewIOShould the driver use the java.nio.* interfaces for network communication (true/false), defaults to 'false'Nofalse3.1.0
useReadAheadInputUse newer, optimized non-blocking, buffered input stream when reading from the server?Notrue3.1.5
Debuging/Profiling
loggerThe 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)Nocom.mysql.jdbc.log.StandardLogger3.1.1
profileSQLTrace queries and their execution/fetch times to the configured logger (true/false) defaults to 'false'Nofalse3.1.0
profileSqlDeprecated, use 'profileSQL' instead. Trace queries and their execution/fetch times on STDERR (true/false) defaults to 'false'No 2.0.14
maxQuerySizeToLogControls the maximum length/size of a query that will get logged when profiling or tracingNo20483.1.3
packetDebugBufferSizeThe maximum number of packets to retain when 'enablePacketDebug' is trueNo203.1.3
slowQueryThresholdMillisIf 'logSlowQueries' is enabled, how long should a query (in ms) before it is logged as 'slow'?No20003.1.2
useUsageAdvisorShould the driver issue 'usage' warnings advising proper and efficient usage of JDBC and MySQL Connector/J to the log (true/false, defaults to 'false')?Nofalse3.1.1
dumpQueriesOnExceptionShould the driver dump the contents of the query sent to the server in the message for SQLExceptions?Nofalse3.1.3
enablePacketDebugWhen enabled, a ring-buffer of 'packetDebugBufferSize' packets will be kept, and dumped when exceptions are thrown in key areas in the driver's codeNofalse3.1.3
explainSlowQueriesIf '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?Nofalse3.1.2
logSlowQueriesShould queries that take longer than 'slowQueryThresholdMillis' be logged?Nofalse3.1.2
traceProtocolShould trace-level network protocol be logged?Nofalse3.1.2
Miscellaneous
useUnicodeShould 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'Nofalse1.1g
characterEncodingIf 'useUnicode' is set to true, what character encoding should the driver use when dealing with strings? (defaults is to 'autodetect')No 1.1g
characterSetResultsCharacter set to tell the server to return results as.No 3.0.13
connectionCollationIf set, tells the server to use this collation via 'set connection_collation'No 3.0.13
allowNanAndInfShould the driver allow NaN or +/- INF values in PreparedStatement.setDouble()?Nofalse3.1.5
autoDeserializeShould the driver automatically detect and de-serialize objects stored in BLOB fields?Nofalse3.1.5
capitalizeTypeNamesCapitalize type names in DatabaseMetaData? (usually only useful when using WebObjects, true/false, defaults to 'false')Nofalse2.0.7
clobberStreamingResultsThis 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.Nofalse3.0.9
continueBatchOnErrorShould the driver continue processing batch commands if one statement fails. The JDBC spec allows either way (defaults to 'true').Notrue3.0.3
emulateLocatorsN/ANofalse3.1.0
emulateUnsupportedPstmtsShould the driver detect prepared statements that are not supported by the server, and replace them with client-side emulated versions?Notrue3.1.7
ignoreNonTxTablesIgnore non-transactional table warning for rollback? (defaults to 'false').Nofalse3.0.9
jdbcCompliantTruncationShould 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)?Notrue3.1.2
maxRowsThe maximum number of rows to return (0, the default means return all rows).No-1all versions
noDatetimeStringSyncDon't ensure that ResultSet.getDatetimeType().toString().equals(ResultSet.getString())Nofalse3.1.7
pedanticFollow the JDBC spec to the letter.Nofalse3.0.0
relaxAutoCommitIf 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')?Nofalse2.0.13
rollbackOnPooledCloseShould the driver issue a rollback() when the logical connection in a pool is closed?Notrue3.0.15
runningCTS13Enables workarounds for bugs in Sun's JDBC compliance testsuite version 1.3Nofalse3.1.7
serverTimezoneOverride detection/mapping of timezone. Used when timezone from server doesn't map to Java timezoneNo 3.0.2
strictFloatingPointUsed only in older versions of compliance testNofalse3.0.0
strictUpdatesShould the driver do strict checking (all primary keys selected) of updatable result sets (true, false, defaults to 'true')?Notrue3.0.4
tinyInt1isBitShould the driver treat the datatype TINYINT(1) as the BIT type (because the server silently converts BIT -> TINYINT(1) when creating tables)?Notrue3.0.16
ultraDevHackCreate PreparedStatements for prepareCall() when required, because UltraDev is broken and issues a prepareCall() for _all_ statements? (true/false, defaults to 'false')Nofalse2.0.3
useHostsInPrivilegesAdd '@hostname' to users in DatabaseMetaData.getColumn/TablePrivileges() (true/false), defaults to 'true'.Notrue3.0.2
useOldUTF8BehaviorUse the UTF-8 behavior the driver did when communicating with 4.0 and older serversNofalse3.1.6
useOnlyServerErrorMessagesDon't prepend 'standard' SQLState error messages to error messages returned by the server.Notrue3.0.15
useServerPrepStmtsUse server-side prepared statements if the server supports them? (defaults to 'true').Notrue3.1.0
useSqlStateCodesUse SQL Standard state codes instead of 'legacy' X/Open/SQL state codes (true/false), default is 'true'Notrue3.1.3
useStreamLengthsInPrepStmtsHonor stream length parameter in PreparedStatement/ResultSet.setXXXStream() method calls (true/false, defaults to 'true')?Notrue3.0.2
useTimezoneConvert time/date types between client and server timezones (true/false, defaults to 'false')?Nofalse3.0.2
useUnbufferedInputDon't use BufferedInputStream for reading data from the serverNotrue3.0.11
zeroDateTimeBehaviorWhat 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'.Noexception3.1.4

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.

2.2.3. Installing MySQL Connector/J for Use With Servlets/JSP/EJB

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

2.3. What's Next?

Once the driver has been installed into your CLASSPATH or application server, the driver is ready for use! Taking a look at the next chapter containing programming information might be a good idea, however.

Chapter 3. Developing Applications with MySQL Connector/J

...

3.1. Basic Functionality

3.1.1. Registering MySQL Connector/J With the JDBC DriverManager

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 
        }
}

3.1.2. Opening a Connection to MySQL

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.

3.1.3. Creating a Statement Instance

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.

3.1.4. Executing a SELECT Query

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; 
    } 
}

3.2. Advanced Functionality

3.2.1. Character Sets and Unicode

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 NameJava-Style Character Encoding Name
usa7US-ASCII
big5Big5
gbkGBK
sjisSJIS
gb2312EUC_CN
ujisEUC_JP
euc_krEUC_KR
latin1ISO8859_1
latin1_deISO8859_1
german1ISO8859_1
danishISO8859_1
latin2ISO8859_2
czechISO8859_2
hungarianISO8859_2
croatISO8859_2
greekISO8859_7
hebrewISO8859_8
latin5ISO8859_9
latvianISO8859_13
latvian1ISO8859_13
estoniaISO8859_13
dosCp437
pclatin2Cp852
cp866Cp866
koi8_ruKOI8_R
tis620TIS620
win1250Cp1250
win1250chCp1250
win1251Cp1251
cp1251Cp1251
win1251ukrCp1251
cp1257Cp1257
macromanMacRoman
macceMacCentralEurope
utf8UTF-8
ucs2UnicodeBig

Warning

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.

3.2.2. Stored Procedures

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:

  1. 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");

    Note

    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.

  2. 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);
    
    ...

  3. 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);
    
    ...

  4. 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
    
    ...

3.2.3. Connecting over SSL

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:

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.

Chapter 4. How to Report Bugs or Problems

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.

If you need to use a JDBC URL that is different than 'jdbc:mysql:///test', then override the method getUrl() as well.

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/.

Chapter 5. Troubleshooting

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:
5.2. My application throws a SQLException 'No Suitable Driver'. Why is this happening?
5.3. I'm trying to use MySQL Connector/J in an applet or application and I get an exception similar to:
5.4. I have a servlet/application that works fine for a day, and then stops working overnight
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.
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.

Note

Testing 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.

Warning

If 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.

Appendix A. Reference

A.1. Type Conversions Supported by MySQL Connector/J

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 TypesCan always be converted to these Java types
CHAR, VARCHAR, BLOB, TEXT, ENUM, and SETjava.lang.String, java.io.InputStream, java.io.Reader, java.sql.Blob, java.sql.Clob
FLOAT, REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION, NUMERIC, DECIMAL, TINYINT, SMALLINT, MEDIUMINT, INTEGER, BIGINTjava.lang.String, java.lang.Short, java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Long, java.lang.Double, java.math.BigDecimal

Note

round-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, TIMESTAMPjava.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 TypeCorresponding Java Type
TINYINT UNSIGNEDjava.lang.Integer
SMALLINT UNSIGNEDjava.lang.Integer
MEDIUMINT UNSIGNEDjava.lang.Long
INT UNSIGNEDjava.lang.Long
BIGINT UNSIGNEDjava.math.BigInteger

Note

Before MySQL Connector/J 3.1.3, BIGINT UNSIGNED was mapped to java.math.BigDecimal.

Appendix B. How Connector/J Maps MySQL Errors to SQLStates

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 NumberMySQL Error NameLegacy (X/Open) SQLStateSQL Standard SQLState
1022ER_DUP_KEYS100023000
1037ER_OUTOFMEMORYS1001HY001
1038ER_OUT_OF_SORTMEMORYS1001HY001
1040ER_CON_COUNT_ERROR0800408004
1042ER_BAD_HOST_ERROR0800408S01
1043ER_HANDSHAKE_ERROR0800408S01
1044ER_DBACCESS_DENIED_ERRORS100042000
1045ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR2800028000
1047ER_UNKNOWN_COM_ERROR08S01HY000
1050ER_TABLE_EXISTS_ERRORS100042S01
1051ER_BAD_TABLE_ERROR42S0242S02
1052ER_NON_UNIQ_ERRORS100023000
1053ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWNS100008S01
1054ER_BAD_FIELD_ERRORS002242S22
1055ER_WRONG_FIELD_WITH_GROUPS100942000
1056ER_WRONG_GROUP_FIELDS100942000
1057ER_WRONG_SUM_SELECTS100942000
1058ER_WRONG_VALUE_COUNT21S0121S01
1059ER_TOO_LONG_IDENTS100942000
1060ER_DUP_FIELDNAMES100942S21
1061ER_DUP_KEYNAMES100942000
1062ER_DUP_ENTRYS100923000
1063ER_WRONG_FIELD_SPECS100942000
1064ER_PARSE_ERROR4200042000
1065ER_EMPTY_QUERY4200042000
1066ER_NONUNIQ_TABLES100942000
1067ER_INVALID_DEFAULTS100942000
1068ER_MULTIPLE_PRI_KEYS100942000
1069ER_TOO_MANY_KEYSS100942000
1070ER_TOO_MANY_KEY_PARTSS100942000
1071ER_TOO_LONG_KEYS100942000
1072ER_KEY_COLUMN_DOES_NOT_EXITSS100942000
1073ER_BLOB_USED_AS_KEYS100942000
1074ER_TOO_BIG_FIELDLENGTHS100942000
1075ER_WRONG_AUTO_KEYS100942000
1080ER_FORCING_CLOSES100008S01
1081ER_IPSOCK_ERROR08S0108S01
1082ER_NO_SUCH_INDEXS100942S12
1083ER_WRONG_FIELD_TERMINATORSS100942000
1084ER_BLOBS_AND_NO_TERMINATEDS100942000
1090ER_CANT_REMOVE_ALL_FIELDSS100042000
1091ER_CANT_DROP_FIELD_OR_KEYS100042000
1101ER_BLOB_CANT_HAVE_DEFAULTS100042000
1102ER_WRONG_DB_NAMES100042000
1103ER_WRONG_TABLE_NAMES100042000
1104ER_TOO_BIG_SELECTS100042000
1106ER_UNKNOWN_PROCEDURES100042000
1107ER_WRONG_PARAMCOUNT_TO_PROCEDURES100042000
1109ER_UNKNOWN_TABLES100042S02
1110ER_FIELD_SPECIFIED_TWICES100042000
1112ER_UNSUPPORTED_EXTENSIONS100042000
1113ER_TABLE_MUST_HAVE_COLUMNSS100042000
1115ER_UNKNOWN_CHARACTER_SETS100042000
1118ER_TOO_BIG_ROWSIZES100042000
1120ER_WRONG_OUTER_JOINS100042000
1121ER_NULL_COLUMN_IN_INDEXS100042000
1129ER_HOST_IS_BLOCKED08004HY000
1130ER_HOST_NOT_PRIVILEGED08004HY000
1131ER_PASSWORD_ANONYMOUS_USERS100042000
1132ER_PASSWORD_NOT_ALLOWEDS100042000
1133ER_PASSWORD_NO_MATCHS100042000
1136ER_WRONG_VALUE_COUNT_ON_ROWS100021S01
1138ER_INVALID_USE_OF_NULLS100042000
1139ER_REGEXP_ERRORS100042000
1140ER_MIX_OF_GROUP_FUNC_AND_FIELDSS100042000
1141ER_NONEXISTING_GRANTS100042000
1142ER_TABLEACCESS_DENIED_ERRORS100042000
1143ER_COLUMNACCESS_DENIED_ERRORS100042000
1144ER_ILLEGAL_GRANT_FOR_TABLES100042000
1145ER_GRANT_WRONG_HOST_OR_USERS100042000
1146ER_NO_SUCH_TABLES100042S02
1147ER_NONEXISTING_TABLE_GRANTS100042000
1148ER_NOT_ALLOWED_COMMANDS100042000
1149ER_SYNTAX_ERRORS100042000
1152ER_ABORTING_CONNECTIONS100008S01
1153ER_NET_PACKET_TOO_LARGES100008S01
1154ER_NET_READ_ERROR_FROM_PIPES100008S01
1155ER_NET_FCNTL_ERRORS100008S01
1156ER_NET_PACKETS_OUT_OF_ORDERS100008S01
1157ER_NET_UNCOMPRESS_ERRORS100008S01
1158ER_NET_READ_ERRORS100008S01
1159ER_NET_READ_INTERRUPTEDS100008S01
1160ER_NET_ERROR_ON_WRITES100008S01
1161ER_NET_WRITE_INTERRUPTEDS100008S01
1162ER_TOO_LONG_STRINGS100042000
1163ER_TABLE_CANT_HANDLE_BLOBS100042000
1164ER_TABLE_CANT_HANDLE_AUTO_INCREMENTS100042000
1166ER_WRONG_COLUMN_NAMES100042000
1167ER_WRONG_KEY_COLUMNS100042000
1169ER_DUP_UNIQUES100023000
1170ER_BLOB_KEY_WITHOUT_LENGTHS100042000
1171ER_PRIMARY_CANT_HAVE_NULLS100042000
1172ER_TOO_MANY_ROWSS100042000
1173ER_REQUIRES_PRIMARY_KEYS100042000
1177ER_CHECK_NO_SUCH_TABLES100042000
1178ER_CHECK_NOT_IMPLEMENTEDS100042000
1179ER_CANT_DO_THIS_DURING_AN_TRANSACTIONS100025000
1184ER_NEW_ABORTING_CONNECTIONS100008S01
1189ER_MASTER_NET_READS100008S01
1190ER_MASTER_NET_WRITES100008S01
1203ER_TOO_MANY_USER_CONNECTIONSS100042000
1205ER_LOCK_WAIT_TIMEOUT41000HY000
1207ER_READ_ONLY_TRANSACTIONS100025000
1211ER_NO_PERMISSION_TO_CREATE_USERS100042000
1213ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK4100040001
1216ER_NO_REFERENCED_ROWS100023000
1217ER_ROW_IS_REFERENCEDS100023000
1218ER_CONNECT_TO_MASTERS100008S01
1222ER_WRONG_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_SELECTS100021000
1226ER_USER_LIMIT_REACHEDS100042000
1230ER_NO_DEFAULTS100042000
1231ER_WRONG_VALUE_FOR_VARS100042000
1232ER_WRONG_TYPE_FOR_VARS100042000
1234ER_CANT_USE_OPTION_HERES100042000
1235ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_YETS100042000
1239ER_WRONG_FK_DEFS100042000
1241ER_OPERAND_COLUMNSS100021000
1242ER_SUBQUERY_NO_1_ROWS100021000
1247ER_ILLEGAL_REFERENCES100042S22
1248ER_DERIVED_MUST_HAVE_ALIASS100042000
1249ER_SELECT_REDUCEDS100001000
1250ER_TABLENAME_NOT_ALLOWED_HERES100042000
1251ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_MODES100008004
1252ER_SPATIAL_CANT_HAVE_NULLS100042000
1253ER_COLLATION_CHARSET_MISMATCHS100042000
1261ER_WARN_TOO_FEW_RECORDSS100001000
1262ER_WARN_TOO_MANY_RECORDSS100001000
1263ER_WARN_NULL_TO_NOTNULLS100001000
1264ER_WARN_DATA_OUT_OF_RANGES100001000
1265ER_WARN_DATA_TRUNCATEDS100001000
1280ER_WRONG_NAME_FOR_INDEXS100042000
1281ER_WRONG_NAME_FOR_CATALOGS100042000
1286ER_UNKNOWN_STORAGE_ENGINES100042000

Appendix C. ChangeLog

# 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()