# MySQL Connector/J

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Abstract

This manual describes MySQL Connector/J, the JDBC implementation for communicating with MySQL servers.

Document generated on: 2008-03-01 (revision: 10086)

List of Tables

4.1. Mapping of MySQL Error Numbers to SQLStates

List of Examples

5.1. Obtaining a connection from the `DriverManager`
5.2. Using java.sql.Statement to execute a `SELECT` query
5.3. Stored Procedures
5.4. Using `Connection.prepareCall()`
5.5. Registering output parameters
5.6. Setting `CallableStatement` input parameters
5.7. Retrieving results and output parameter values
5.8. Retrieving `AUTO_INCREMENT` column values using `Statement.getGeneratedKeys()`
5.9. Retrieving `AUTO_INCREMENT` column values using `SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()`
5.10. Retrieving `AUTO_INCREMENT` column values in `Updatable ResultSets`
5.11. Using a connection pool with a J2EE application server
5.12. Example of transaction with retry logic

## MySQL Connector/J

MySQL provides connectivity for client applications developed in the Java programming language via a JDBC driver, which is called MySQL Connector/J.

MySQL Connector/J is a JDBC Type 4 driver. Different versions are available that are compatible with the JDBC-3.0 and JDBC-4.0 specifications. The Type 4 designation means that the driver is pure-Java implementation of the MySQL protocol and does not rely on the MySQL client libraries.

Although JDBC is useful by itself, we would hope that if you are not familiar with JDBC that after reading the first few sections of this manual, that you would avoid using naked JDBC for all but the most trivial problems and consider using one of the popular persistence frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring's JDBC templates or Ibatis SQL Maps to do the majority of repetitive work and heavier lifting that is sometimes required with JDBC.

This section is not designed to be a complete JDBC tutorial. If you need more information about using JDBC you might be interested in the following online tutorials that are more in-depth than the information presented here:

- JDBC Basics — A tutorial from Sun covering beginner topics in JDBC

- JDBC Short Course — A more in-depth tutorial from Sun and JGuru

Key topics:

- For help with connection strings, connection options setting up your connection through JDBC, see Section 4.1, “Driver/Datasource Class Names, URL Syntax and Configuration Properties for Connector/J”.

- For tips on using Connector/J and JDBC with generic J2EE toolkits, see Section 5.2, “Using Connector/J with J2EE and Other Java Frameworks”.

- Developers using the Tomcat server platform, see Section 5.2.2, “Using Connector/J with Tomcat”.

- Developers using JBoss, see Section 5.2.3, “Using Connector/J with JBoss”.

- Developers using Spring, see Section 5.2.4, “Using Connector/J with Spring”.

MySQL Enterprise MySQL Enterprise subscribers will find more information about using JDBC with MySQL in the Knowledge Base articles about JDBC. Access to the MySQL Knowledge Base collection of articles is one of the advantages of subscribing to MySQL Enterprise. For more information see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/advisors.html.

## Chapter 1. Connector/J Versions

There are currently four versions of MySQL Connector/J available:

- Connector/J 5.1 is the Type IV pure Java JDBC driver and provides compatibility with all the functionality of MySQL, including 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 and the 6.0 alpha release featuring the new Falcon storage engine. Connector/J 5.1 provides ease of development features, including auto-registration with the Driver Manager, standardized validity checks, categorized SQLExceptions, support for the JDBC-4.0 XML processing, per connection client information, `NCHAR`, `NVARCHAR` and `NCLOB` types. This release also includes all bug fixes up to and including Connector/J 5.0.6.

- Connector/J 5.0 provides support for all the functionality offered by Connector/J 3.1 and includes distributed transaction (XA) support.

- Connector/J 3.1 was designed for connectivity to MySQL 4.1 and MySQL 5.0 servers and provides support for all the functionality in MySQL 5.0 except distributed transaction (XA) support.

- Connector/J 3.0 provides core functionality and was designed with connectivity to MySQL 3.x or MySQL 4.1 servers, although it will provide basic compatibility with later versions of MySQL. Connector/J 3.0 does not support server-side prepared statements, and does not support any of the features in versions of MySQL later than 4.1.

The current recommended version for Connector/J is 5.1. This guide covers all three connector versions, with specific notes given where a setting applies to a specific option.

## 1.1. Java Versions Supported

MySQL Connector/J supports Java-2 JVMs, including:

- JDK 1.2.x (only for Connector/J 3.1.x or earlier)

- JDK 1.3.x

- JDK 1.4.x

- JDK 1.5.x

- JDK 1.6.x

If you are building Connector/J from source using the source distribution (see Section 2.4, “Installing from the Development Source Tree”) then you must use JDK 1.4.x or newer to compiler the Connector package. For Connector/J 5.1 you must use JDK-1.6.x.

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 (by setting the `-Xverify:none` option to the Java runtime). This is because 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.

Caching functionality provided by Connector/J 3.1.0 or newer is also not available on JVMs older than 1.4.x, as it relies on `java.util.LinkedHashMap` which was first available in JDK-1.4.0.

## Chapter 2. Connector/J Installation

You can install the Connector/J package using two methods, using either the binary or source distribution. The binary distribution provides the easiest methods for installation; the source distribution enables you to customize your installation further. With either solution, you must manually add the Connector/J location to your Java `CLASSPATH`.

If you are upgrading from a previous version, read the upgrade information before continuing. See Section 2.3, “Upgrading from an Older Version”.

## 2.1. Installing Connector/J from a Binary Distribution

The easiest method of installation is to use the binary distribution of the Connector/J package. The binary distribution is available either as a Tar/Gzip or Zip file which you must extract to a suitable location and then optionally make the information about the package available by changing your `CLASSPATH` (see Section 2.2, “Installing the Driver and Configuring the `CLASSPATH`”).

MySQL Connector/J is distributed as a .zip or .tar.gz archive containing the sources, the class files, and the JAR archive named `mysql-connector-java-`[version]`-bin.jar`, and starting with Connector/J 3.1.8 a debug build of the driver in a file named `mysql-connector-java-`[version]`-bin-g.jar`.

Starting with Connector/J 3.1.9, the `.class` files that constitute the JAR files are only included as part of the driver JAR file.

You should not use the debug build of the driver unless instructed to do so when reporting a problem or a bug to MySQL AB, as it is not designed to be run in production environments, and will have adverse performance impact when used. The debug binary also depends on the Aspect/J runtime library, which is located in the `src/lib/aspectjrt.jar` file that comes with the Connector/J distribution.

You will need to use the appropriate graphical or command-line utility to extract the distribution (for example, WinZip for the .zip archive, and tar for the .tar.gz archive). Because there are potentially long filenames in the distribution, we use the GNU tar archive format. You will need to use GNU tar (or an application that understands the GNU tar archive format) to unpack the .tar.gz variant of the distribution.

## 2.2. Installing the Driver and Configuring the `CLASSPATH`

Once you have extracted the distribution archive, you can install the driver by placing `mysql-connector-java-[version]-bin.jar` in your classpath, either by adding the full path to it to your `CLASSPATH` environment variable, or by directly specifying it with the command line switch -cp when starting your JVM.

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.

You can set the `CLASSPATH` environment variable under UNIX, Linux or Mac OS X either locally for a user within their `.profile`, `.login` or other login file. You can also set it globally by editing the global `/etc/profile` file.

For example, under a C shell (csh, tcsh) you would add the Connector/J driver to your `CLASSPATH` using the following:

    shell> setenv CLASSPATH /path/mysql-connector-java-[ver]-bin.jar:$CLASSPATH

Or with a Bourne-compatible shell (sh, ksh, bash):

    export set CLASSPATH=/path/mysql-connector-java-[ver]-bin.jar:$CLASSPATH

Within Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, you must set the environment variable through the System control panel.

If you want to use MySQL Connector/J with an 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. For configuration examples for some J2EE application servers, see Section 5.2, “Using Connector/J with J2EE and Other Java Frameworks”. However, the authoritative source for JDBC connection pool configuration information for your particular application server is the documentation for that application server.

If you are developing servlets or JSPs, and your application server is J2EE-compliant, you can put the driver's .jar file in the WEB-INF/lib subdirectory of your webapp, as this is a 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. Starting with Connector/J 5.0.0, the `javax.sql.XADataSource` interface is implemented via the `com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXADataSource` class, which supports XA distributed transactions when used in combination with MySQL server version 5.0.

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. Upgrading from an Older Version

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.

### 2.3.1. Upgrading from MySQL Connector/J 3.0 to 3.1

Connector/J 3.1 is designed to be backward-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 Character Set Support, 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 — 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 connection property useServerPrepStmts=false

- Datetimes with all-zero components (`0000-00-00 ...`) — These values can not be represented reliably in Java. Connector/J 3.0.x always converted them to NULL when being read from a ResultSet.

  Connector/J 3.1 throws an exception by default when these values are encountered as this is the most correct behavior according to the JDBC and SQL standards. This behavior can be modified using the zeroDateTimeBehavior configuration property. The allowable values are:

  - `exception` (the default), which throws an SQLException with an SQLState of `S1009`.

  - `convertToNull`, which returns `NULL` instead of the date.

  - `round`, which rounds the date to the nearest closest value which is `0001-01-01`.

  Starting with Connector/J 3.1.7, `ResultSet.getString()` can be decoupled from this behavior via noDatetimeStringSync=true (the default value is `false`) so that you can get retrieve the unaltered all-zero value as a String. It should be noted that this also precludes using any time zone conversions, therefore the driver will not allow you to enable noDatetimeStringSync and useTimezone at the same time.

- New SQLState Codes — Connector/J 3.1 uses SQL:1999 SQLState codes returned by the MySQL server (if supported), which are different from 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 configuration property useSqlStateCodes=false.

- `ResultSet.getString()` — Calling `ResultSet.getString()` on a BLOB column will now return the address of the byte[] array that represents it, instead of a String representation of the BLOB. BLOBs have no character set, so they can't be converted to java.lang.Strings without data loss or corruption.

  To store strings in MySQL with LOB behavior, use one of the TEXT types, which the driver will treat as a java.sql.Clob.

- Debug builds — Starting with Connector/J 3.1.8 a debug build of the driver in a file named `mysql-connector-java-`[version]`-bin-g.jar` is shipped alongside the normal binary jar file that is named `mysql-connector-java-`[version]`-bin.jar`.

  Starting with Connector/J 3.1.9, we don't ship the .class files unbundled, they are only available in the JAR archives that ship with the driver.

  You should not use the debug build of the driver unless instructed to do so when reporting a problem or bug to MySQL AB, as it is not designed to be run in production environments, and will have adverse performance impact when used. The debug binary also depends on the Aspect/J runtime library, which is located in the `src/lib/aspectjrt.jar` file that comes with the Connector/J distribution.

### 2.3.2. Upgrading to MySQL Connector/J 5.1.x

- In Connector/J 5.0.x and earlier, the alias for a table in a `SELECT` statement is returned when accessing the result set metadata using `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnName()`. This behavior however is not JDBC compliant, and in Connector/J 5.1 this behavior was changed so that the original table name, rather than the alias, is returned.

  The JDBC-compliant behavior is designed to let API users reconstruct the DML statement based on the metadata within `ResultSet` and `ResultSetMetaData`.

  You can get the alias for a column in a result set by calling `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnLabel()`. If you want to use the old non-compliant behavior with `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnName()`, use the `useOldAliasMetadataBehavior` option and set the value to `true`.

  In Connector/J 5.0.x the default value of `useOldAliasMetadataBehavior` was true, but in Connector/J 5.1 this was changed to a default value of false.

### 2.3.3. JDBC-Specific Issues When Upgrading to MySQL Server 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). 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`

## 2.4. Installing from the Development Source Tree

### Caution

You should read this section only if you are interested in helping us test our new code. If you just want to get MySQL Connector/J up and running on your system, you should use a standard release distribution.

To install MySQL Connector/J from the development source tree, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:

- Subversion, to check out the sources from our repository (available from http://subversion.tigris.org/).

- Apache Ant version 1.6 or newer (available from http://ant.apache.org/).

- JDK-1.4.2 or later. Although MySQL Connector/J can be installed on older JDKs, to compile it from source you must have at least JDK-1.4.2.

The Subversion source code repository for MySQL Connector/J is located at http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/connector-j. In general, you should not check out the entire repository because it contains every branch and tag for MySQL Connector/J and is quite large.

To check out and compile a specific branch of MySQL Connector/J, follow these steps:

1. Check out the latest code from the branch that you want with the following command (replacing `[major]` and `[minor]` with appropriate version numbers):

       shell> svn co »
       http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/connector-j/branches/branch_[major]_[minor]/connector-j

   This creates a `connector-j` subdirectory in the current directory that contains the latest sources for the requested branch.

2. Change location to the `connector-j` directory to make it your current working directory:

       shell> cd connector-j

3. Issue the following command to compile the driver and create a `.jar` file suitable for installation:

       shell> ant dist

   This creates a `build` directory in the current directory, where all build output will go. A directory is created in the `build` directory that includes the version number of the sources you are building from. This directory contains the sources, compiled `.class` files, and a `.jar` file suitable for deployment. For other possible targets, including ones that will create a fully packaged distribution, issue the following command:

       shell> ant -projecthelp

4. A newly created `.jar` file containing the JDBC driver will be placed in the directory `build/mysql-connector-java-`[version]``.

   Install the newly created JDBC driver as you would a binary `.jar` file that you download from MySQL by following the instructions in Section 2.2, “Installing the Driver and Configuring the `CLASSPATH`”.

If you want to build the Connector/J 5.1 branch then you must have a compatible JDK 6.0 installed.

## Chapter 3. Connector/J Examples

Examples of using Connector/J are located throughout this document, this section provides a summary and links to these examples.

- Example 5.1, “Obtaining a connection from the `DriverManager`”

- Example 5.2, “Using java.sql.Statement to execute a `SELECT` query”

- Example 5.3, “Stored Procedures”

- Example 5.4, “Using `Connection.prepareCall()`”

- Example 5.5, “Registering output parameters”

- Example 5.6, “Setting `CallableStatement` input parameters”

- Example 5.7, “Retrieving results and output parameter values”

- Example 5.8, “Retrieving `AUTO_INCREMENT` column values using `Statement.getGeneratedKeys()`”

- Example 5.9, “Retrieving `AUTO_INCREMENT` column values using `SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()`”

- Example 5.10, “Retrieving `AUTO_INCREMENT` column values in `Updatable ResultSets`”

- Example 5.11, “Using a connection pool with a J2EE application server”

- Example 5.12, “Example of transaction with retry logic”

## Chapter 4. Connector/J (JDBC) Reference

This section of the manual contains reference material for MySQL Connector/J, some of which is automatically generated during the Connector/J build process.

## 4.1. Driver/Datasource Class Names, URL Syntax and Configuration Properties for Connector/J

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 backward-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.

    jdbc:mysql://[host:port],[host:port].../[database] »
    [?propertyName1][=propertyValue1][&propertyName2][=propertyValue2]...

If the database is not specified, the connection will be made with no default database. In this case, you will need to either call the `setCatalog()` method on the Connection instance 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 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).

Configuration properties define how Connector/J will make a connection to a MySQL server. Unless otherwise noted, properties can be set for a DataSource object or for a Connection object.

Configuration Properties can be set in one of the following ways:

- Using the set*() methods on MySQL implementations of java.sql.DataSource (which is the preferred method when using implementations of java.sql.DataSource):

  - com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource

  - com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource

- As a key/value pair in the java.util.Properties instance passed to `DriverManager.getConnection()` or `Driver.connect()`

- As a JDBC URL parameter in the URL given to `java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection()`, `java.sql.Driver.connect()` or the MySQL implementations of the `javax.sql.DataSource` `setURL()` method.

  ### Note

  If the mechanism you use to configure a JDBC URL is XML-based, you will need to use the XML character literal &amp; to separate configuration parameters, as the ampersand is a reserved character for XML.

The properties are listed in the following tables.

Connection/Authentication.

Property Name | Definition | Default Value | Since Version
user | The user to connect as |  | all versions
password | The password to use when connecting |  | all versions
socketFactory | The name of the class that the driver should use for creating socket connections to the server. This class must implement the interface 'com.mysql.jdbc.SocketFactory' and have public no-args constructor. | com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory | 3.0.3
connectTimeout | Timeout for socket connect (in milliseconds), with 0 being no timeout. Only works on JDK-1.4 or newer. Defaults to '0'. | 0 | 3.0.1
socketTimeout | Timeout on network socket operations (0, the default means no timeout). | 0 | 3.0.1

connectionLifecycleInterceptors

A comma-delimited list of classes that implement "com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionLifecycleInterceptor" that should notified of connection lifecycle events (creation, destruction, commit, rollback, setCatalog and setAutoCommit) and potentially alter the execution of these commands. ConnectionLifecycleInterceptors are "stackable", more than one interceptor may be specified via the configuration property as a comma-delimited list, with the interceptors executed in order from left to right.

5.1.4

useConfigs | Load the comma-delimited list of configuration properties before parsing the URL or applying user-specified properties. These configurations are explained in the 'Configurations' of the documentation. |  | 3.1.5
interactiveClient | Set the CLIENT_INTERACTIVE flag, which tells MySQL to timeout connections based on INTERACTIVE_TIMEOUT instead of WAIT_TIMEOUT | false | 3.1.0
localSocketAddress | Hostname or IP address given to explicitly configure the interface that the driver will bind the client side of the TCP/IP connection to when connecting. |  | 5.0.5
propertiesTransform | An implementation of com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionPropertiesTransform that the driver will use to modify URL properties passed to the driver before attempting a connection |  | 3.1.4
useCompression | Use zlib compression when communicating with the server (true/false)? Defaults to 'false'. | false | 3.0.17

Networking.

Property Name | Definition | Default Value | Since Version
tcpKeepAlive | If connecting using TCP/IP, should the driver set SO_KEEPALIVE? | true | 5.0.7
tcpNoDelay | If connecting using TCP/IP, should the driver set SO_TCP_NODELAY (disabling the Nagle Algorithm)? | true | 5.0.7
tcpRcvBuf | If connecting using TCP/IP, should the driver set SO_RCV_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property) | 0 | 5.0.7
tcpSndBuf | If connecting using TCP/IP, shuold the driver set SO_SND_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property) | 0 | 5.0.7
tcpTrafficClass | If connecting using TCP/IP, should the driver set traffic class or type-of-service fields ?See the documentation for java.net.Socket.setTrafficClass() for more information. | 0 | 5.0.7

High Availability and Clustering.

Property Name | Definition | Default Value | Since Version

autoReconnect

Should the driver try to re-establish stale and/or dead connections? If enabled the driver will throw an exception for a queries issued on a stale or dead connection, which belong to the current transaction, but will attempt reconnect before the next query issued on the connection in a new transaction. The use of this feature is not recommended, because it has side effects related to session state and data consistency when applications don't handle SQLExceptions properly, and is only designed to be used when you are unable to configure your application to handle SQLExceptions resulting from dead and stale connections properly. Alternatively, investigate setting the MySQL server variable "wait_timeout" to some high value rather than the default of 8 hours.

false

1.1

autoReconnectForPools | Use a reconnection strategy appropriate for connection pools (defaults to 'false') | false | 3.1.3
failOverReadOnly | When failing over in autoReconnect mode, should the connection be set to 'read-only'? | true | 3.0.12
maxReconnects | Maximum number of reconnects to attempt if autoReconnect is true, default is '3'. | 3 | 1.1
reconnectAtTxEnd | If autoReconnect is set to true, should the driver attempt reconnections at the end of every transaction? | false | 3.0.10
initialTimeout | If autoReconnect is enabled, the initial time to wait between re-connect attempts (in seconds, defaults to '2'). | 2 | 1.1
roundRobinLoadBalance | When autoReconnect is enabled, and failoverReadonly is false, should we pick hosts to connect to on a round-robin basis? | false | 3.1.2
queriesBeforeRetryMaster | Number of queries to issue before falling back to master when failed over (when using multi-host failover). Whichever condition is met first, 'queriesBeforeRetryMaster' or 'secondsBeforeRetryMaster' will cause an attempt to be made to reconnect to the master. Defaults to 50. | 50 | 3.0.2
secondsBeforeRetryMaster | How long should the driver wait, when failed over, before attempting | 30 | 3.0.2
resourceId | A globally unique name that identifies the resource that this datasource or connection is connected to, used for XAResource.isSameRM() when the driver can't determine this value based on hostnames used in the URL |  | 5.0.1

Security.

Property Name | Definition | Default Value | Since Version
allowMultiQueries | Allow the use of ';' to delimit multiple queries during one statement (true/false), defaults to 'false' | false | 3.1.1
useSSL | Use SSL when communicating with the server (true/false), defaults to 'false' | false | 3.0.2
requireSSL | Require SSL connection if useSSL=true? (defaults to 'false'). | false | 3.1.0
allowLoadLocalInfile | Should the driver allow use of 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE...' (defaults to 'true'). | true | 3.0.3
allowUrlInLocalInfile | Should the driver allow URLs in 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE' statements? | false | 3.1.4
clientCertificateKeyStorePassword | Password for the client certificates KeyStore |  | 5.1.0
clientCertificateKeyStoreType | KeyStore type for client certificates (NULL or empty means use default, standard keystore types supported by the JVM are "JKS" and "PKCS12", your environment may have more available depending on what security products are installed and available to the JVM. |  | 5.1.0
clientCertificateKeyStoreUrl | URL to the client certificate KeyStore (if not specified, use defaults) |  | 5.1.0
trustCertificateKeyStorePassword | Password for the trusted root certificates KeyStore |  | 5.1.0
trustCertificateKeyStoreType | KeyStore type for trusted root certificates (NULL or empty means use default, standard keystore types supported by the JVM are "JKS" and "PKCS12", your environment may have more available depending on what security products are installed and available to the JVM. |  | 5.1.0
trustCertificateKeyStoreUrl | URL to the trusted root certificate KeyStore (if not specified, use defaults) |  | 5.1.0
paranoid | Take measures to prevent exposure sensitive information in error messages and clear data structures holding sensitive data when possible? (defaults to 'false') | false | 3.0.1

Performance Extensions.

Property Name | Definition | Default Value | Since Version
callableStmtCacheSize | If 'cacheCallableStmts' is enabled, how many callable statements should be cached? | 100 | 3.1.2
metadataCacheSize | The number of queries to cache ResultSetMetadata for if cacheResultSetMetaData is set to 'true' (default 50) | 50 | 3.1.1
prepStmtCacheSize | If prepared statement caching is enabled, how many prepared statements should be cached? | 25 | 3.0.10
prepStmtCacheSqlLimit | If prepared statement caching is enabled, what's the largest SQL the driver will cache the parsing for? | 256 | 3.0.10

alwaysSendSetIsolation

Should the driver always communicate with the database when Connection.setTransactionIsolation() is called? If set to false, the driver will only communicate with the database when the requested transaction isolation is different than the whichever is newer, the last value that was set via Connection.setTransactionIsolation(), or the value that was read from the server when the connection was established.

true

3.1.7

maintainTimeStats | Should the driver maintain various internal timers to enable idle time calculations as well as more verbose error messages when the connection to the server fails? Setting this property to false removes at least two calls to System.getCurrentTimeMillis() per query. | true | 3.1.9
useCursorFetch | If connected to MySQL > 5.0.2, and setFetchSize() > 0 on a statement, should that statement use cursor-based fetching to retrieve rows? | false | 5.0.0
blobSendChunkSize | Chunk to use when sending BLOB/CLOBs via ServerPreparedStatements | 1048576 | 3.1.9
cacheCallableStmts | Should the driver cache the parsing stage of CallableStatements | false | 3.1.2
cachePrepStmts | Should the driver cache the parsing stage of PreparedStatements of client-side prepared statements, the "check" for suitability of server-side prepared and server-side prepared statements themselves? | false | 3.0.10
cacheResultSetMetadata | Should the driver cache ResultSetMetaData for Statements and PreparedStatements? (Req. JDK-1.4+, true/false, default 'false') | false | 3.1.1
cacheServerConfiguration | Should the driver cache the results of 'SHOW VARIABLES' and 'SHOW COLLATION' on a per-URL basis? | false | 3.1.5
defaultFetchSize | The driver will call setFetchSize(n) with this value on all newly-created Statements | 0 | 3.1.9
dontTrackOpenResources | The JDBC specification requires the driver to automatically track and close resources, however if your application doesn't do a good job of explicitly calling close() on statements or result sets, this can cause memory leakage. Setting this property to true relaxes this constraint, and can be more memory efficient for some applications. | false | 3.1.7
dynamicCalendars | Should the driver retrieve the default calendar when required, or cache it per connection/session? | false | 3.1.5
elideSetAutoCommits | If using MySQL-4.1 or newer, should the driver only issue 'set autocommit=n' queries when the server's state doesn't match the requested state by Connection.setAutoCommit(boolean)? | false | 3.1.3

enableQueryTimeouts

When enabled, query timeouts set via Statement.setQueryTimeout() use a shared java.util.Timer instance for scheduling. Even if the timeout doesn't expire before the query is processed, there will be memory used by the TimerTask for the given timeout which won't be reclaimed until the time the timeout would have expired if it hadn't been cancelled by the driver. High-load environments might want to consider disabling this functionality.

true

5.0.6

holdResultsOpenOverStatementClose | Should the driver close result sets on Statement.close() as required by the JDBC specification? | false | 3.1.7
largeRowSizeThreshold | What size result set row should the JDBC driver consider "large", and thus use a more memory-efficient way of representing the row internally? | 2048 | 5.1.1

loadBalanceStrategy

If using a load-balanced connection to connect to SQL nodes in a MySQL Cluster/NDB configuration (by using the URL prefix "jdbc:mysql:loadbalance://"), which load balancing algorithm should the driver use: (1) "random" - the driver will pick a random host for each request. This tends to work better than round-robin, as the randomness will somewhat account for spreading loads where requests vary in response time, while round-robin can sometimes lead to overloaded nodes if there are variations in response times across the workload. (2) "bestResponseTime" - the driver will route the request to the host that had the best response time for the previous transaction.

random

5.0.6

locatorFetchBufferSize | If 'emulateLocators' is configured to 'true', what size buffer should be used when fetching BLOB data for getBinaryInputStream? | 1048576 | 3.2.1

rewriteBatchedStatements

Should the driver use multiqueries (irregardless of the setting of "allowMultiQueries") as well as rewriting of prepared statements for INSERT into multi-value inserts when executeBatch() is called? Notice that this has the potential for SQL injection if using plain java.sql.Statements and your code doesn't sanitize input correctly. Notice that for prepared statements, server-side prepared statements can not currently take advantage of this rewrite option, and that if you don't specify stream lengths when using PreparedStatement.set*Stream(), the driver won't be able to determine the optimum number of parameters per batch and you might receive an error from the driver that the resultant packet is too large. Statement.getGeneratedKeys() for these rewritten statements only works when the entire batch includes INSERT statements.

false

3.1.13

useDirectRowUnpack | Use newer result set row unpacking code that skips a copy from network buffers to a MySQL packet instance and instead reads directly into the result set row data buffers. | true | 5.1.1
useDynamicCharsetInfo | Should the driver use a per-connection cache of character set information queried from the server when necessary, or use a built-in static mapping that is more efficient, but isn't aware of custom character sets or character sets implemented after the release of the JDBC driver? | true | 5.0.6
useFastDateParsing | Use internal String->Date/Time/Timestamp conversion routines to avoid excessive object creation? | true | 5.0.5
useFastIntParsing | Use internal String->Integer conversion routines to avoid excessive object creation? | true | 3.1.4
useJvmCharsetConverters | Always use the character encoding routines built into the JVM, rather than using lookup tables for single-byte character sets? | false | 5.0.1
useLocalSessionState | Should the driver refer to the internal values of autocommit and transaction isolation that are set by Connection.setAutoCommit() and Connection.setTransactionIsolation() and transaction state as maintained by the protocol, rather than querying the database or blindly sending commands to the database for commit() or rollback() method calls? | false | 3.1.7
useReadAheadInput | Use newer, optimized non-blocking, buffered input stream when reading from the server? | true | 3.1.5

Debugging/Profiling.

Property Name | Definition | Default Value | Since Version
logger | The name of a class that implements "com.mysql.jdbc.log.Log" that will be used to log messages to. (default is "com.mysql.jdbc.log.StandardLogger", which logs to STDERR) | com.mysql.jdbc.log.StandardLogger | 3.1.1
gatherPerfMetrics | Should the driver gather performance metrics, and report them via the configured logger every 'reportMetricsIntervalMillis' milliseconds? | false | 3.1.2
profileSQL | Trace queries and their execution/fetch times to the configured logger (true/false) defaults to 'false' | false | 3.1.0
profileSql | Deprecated, use 'profileSQL' instead. Trace queries and their execution/fetch times on STDERR (true/false) defaults to 'false' |  | 2.0.14
reportMetricsIntervalMillis | If 'gatherPerfMetrics' is enabled, how often should they be logged (in ms)? | 30000 | 3.1.2
maxQuerySizeToLog | Controls the maximum length/size of a query that will get logged when profiling or tracing | 2048 | 3.1.3
packetDebugBufferSize | The maximum number of packets to retain when 'enablePacketDebug' is true | 20 | 3.1.3
slowQueryThresholdMillis | If 'logSlowQueries' is enabled, how long should a query (in ms) before it is logged as 'slow'? | 2000 | 3.1.2
slowQueryThresholdNanos | If 'useNanosForElapsedTime' is set to true, and this property is set to a non-zero value, the driver will use this threshold (in nanosecond units) to determine if a query was slow. | 0 | 5.0.7
useUsageAdvisor | Should the driver issue 'usage' warnings advising proper and efficient usage of JDBC and MySQL Connector/J to the log (true/false, defaults to 'false')? | false | 3.1.1
autoGenerateTestcaseScript | Should the driver dump the SQL it is executing, including server-side prepared statements to STDERR? | false | 3.1.9
autoSlowLog | Instead of using slowQueryThreshold* to determine if a query is slow enough to be logged, maintain statistics that allow the driver to determine queries that are outside the 99th percentile? | true | 5.1.4
clientInfoProvider | The name of a class that implements the com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4ClientInfoProvider interface in order to support JDBC-4.0's Connection.get/setClientInfo() methods | com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4CommentClientInfoProvider | 5.1.0
dumpMetadataOnColumnNotFound | Should the driver dump the field-level metadata of a result set into the exception message when ResultSet.findColumn() fails? | false | 3.1.13
dumpQueriesOnException | Should the driver dump the contents of the query sent to the server in the message for SQLExceptions? | false | 3.1.3
enablePacketDebug | When enabled, a ring-buffer of 'packetDebugBufferSize' packets will be kept, and dumped when exceptions are thrown in key areas in the driver's code | false | 3.1.3
explainSlowQueries | If 'logSlowQueries' is enabled, should the driver automatically issue an 'EXPLAIN' on the server and send the results to the configured log at a WARN level? | false | 3.1.2
includeInnodbStatusInDeadlockExceptions | Include the output of "SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS" in exception messages when deadlock exceptions are detected? | false | 5.0.7
logSlowQueries | Should queries that take longer than 'slowQueryThresholdMillis' be logged? | false | 3.1.2
logXaCommands | Should the driver log XA commands sent by MysqlXaConnection to the server, at the DEBUG level of logging? | false | 5.0.5
resultSetSizeThreshold | If the usage advisor is enabled, how many rows should a result set contain before the driver warns that it is suspiciously large? | 100 | 5.0.5
traceProtocol | Should trace-level network protocol be logged? | false | 3.1.2
useNanosForElapsedTime | For profiling/debugging functionality that measures elapsed time, should the driver try to use nanoseconds resolution if available (JDK >= 1.5)? | false | 5.0.7

Miscellaneous.

Property Name | Definition | Default Value | Since Version
useUnicode | Should the driver use Unicode character encodings when handling strings? Should only be used when the driver can't determine the character set mapping, or you are trying to 'force' the driver to use a character set that MySQL either doesn't natively support (such as UTF-8), true/false, defaults to 'true' | true | 1.1g
characterEncoding | If 'useUnicode' is set to true, what character encoding should the driver use when dealing with strings? (defaults is to 'autodetect') |  | 1.1g
characterSetResults | Character set to tell the server to return results as. |  | 3.0.13
connectionCollation | If set, tells the server to use this collation via 'set collation_connection' |  | 3.0.13
useBlobToStoreUTF8OutsideBMP | Tells the driver to treat [MEDIUM/LONG]BLOB columns as [LONG]VARCHAR columns holding text encoded in UTF-8 that has characters outside the BMP (4-byte encodings), which MySQL server can't handle natively. | false | 5.1.3
utf8OutsideBmpExcludedColumnNamePattern | When "useBlobToStoreUTF8OutsideBMP" is set to "true", column names matching the given regex will still be treated as BLOBs unless they match the regex specified for "utf8OutsideBmpIncludedColumnNamePattern". The regex must follow the patterns used for the java.util.regex package. |  | 5.1.3
utf8OutsideBmpIncludedColumnNamePattern | Used to specify exclusion rules to "utf8OutsideBmpExcludedColumnNamePattern". The regex must follow the patterns used for the java.util.regex package. |  | 5.1.3
sessionVariables | A comma-separated list of name/value pairs to be sent as SET SESSION ... to the server when the driver connects. |  | 3.1.8
allowNanAndInf | Should the driver allow NaN or +/- INF values in PreparedStatement.setDouble()? | false | 3.1.5
autoClosePStmtStreams | Should the driver automatically call .close() on streams/readers passed as arguments via set*() methods? | false | 3.1.12
autoDeserialize | Should the driver automatically detect and de-serialize objects stored in BLOB fields? | false | 3.1.5
blobsAreStrings | Should the driver always treat BLOBs as Strings - specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for GROUP BY clauses? | false | 5.0.8
capitalizeTypeNames | Capitalize type names in DatabaseMetaData? (usually only useful when using WebObjects, true/false, defaults to 'false') | true | 2.0.7
clobCharacterEncoding | The character encoding to use for sending and retrieving TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT and LONGTEXT values instead of the configured connection characterEncoding |  | 5.0.0
clobberStreamingResults | This will cause a 'streaming' ResultSet to be automatically closed, and any outstanding data still streaming from the server to be discarded if another query is executed before all the data has been read from the server. | false | 3.0.9
continueBatchOnError | Should the driver continue processing batch commands if one statement fails. The JDBC spec allows either way (defaults to 'true'). | true | 3.0.3
createDatabaseIfNotExist | Creates the database given in the URL if it doesn't yet exist. Assumes the configured user has permissions to create databases. | false | 3.1.9
emptyStringsConvertToZero | Should the driver allow conversions from empty string fields to numeric values of '0'? | true | 3.1.8

emulateLocators

Should the driver emulate java.sql.Blobs with locators? With this feature enabled, the driver will delay loading the actual Blob data until the one of the retrieval methods (getInputStream(), getBytes(), and so forth) on the blob data stream has been accessed. For this to work, you must use a column alias with the value of the column to the actual name of the Blob. The feature also has the following restrictions: The SELECT that created the result set must reference only one table, the table must have a primary key; the SELECT must alias the original blob column name, specified as a string, to an alternate name; the SELECT must cover all columns that make up the primary key.

false

3.1.0

emulateUnsupportedPstmts | Should the driver detect prepared statements that are not supported by the server, and replace them with client-side emulated versions? | true | 3.1.7
functionsNeverReturnBlobs | Should the driver always treat data from functions returning BLOBs as Strings - specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for GROUP BY clauses? | false | 5.0.8
generateSimpleParameterMetadata | Should the driver generate simplified parameter metadata for PreparedStatements when no metadata is available either because the server couldn't support preparing the statement, or server-side prepared statements are disabled? | false | 5.0.5
ignoreNonTxTables | Ignore non-transactional table warning for rollback? (defaults to 'false'). | false | 3.0.9
jdbcCompliantTruncation | Should the driver throw java.sql.DataTruncation exceptions when data is truncated as is required by the JDBC specification when connected to a server that supports warnings (MySQL 4.1.0 and newer)? This property has no effect if the server sql-mode includes STRICT_TRANS_TABLES. | true | 3.1.2
maxRows | The maximum number of rows to return (0, the default means return all rows). | -1 | all versions
netTimeoutForStreamingResults | What value should the driver automatically set the server setting 'net_write_timeout' to when the streaming result sets feature is in use? (value has unit of seconds, the value '0' means the driver will not try and adjust this value) | 600 | 5.1.0

noAccessToProcedureBodies

When determining procedure parameter types for CallableStatements, and the connected user can't access procedure bodies through "SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE" or select on mysql.proc should the driver instead create basic metadata (all parameters reported as IN VARCHARs, but allowing registerOutParameter() to be called on them anyway) instead of throwing an exception?

false

5.0.3

noDatetimeStringSync | Don't ensure that ResultSet.getDatetimeType().toString().equals(ResultSet.getString()) | false | 3.1.7
noTimezoneConversionForTimeType | Don't convert TIME values using the server timezone if 'useTimezone'='true' | false | 5.0.0
nullCatalogMeansCurrent | When DatabaseMetadataMethods ask for a 'catalog' parameter, does the value null mean use the current catalog? (this is not JDBC-compliant, but follows legacy behavior from earlier versions of the driver) | true | 3.1.8
nullNamePatternMatchesAll | Should DatabaseMetaData methods that accept *pattern parameters treat null the same as '%' (this is not JDBC-compliant, however older versions of the driver accepted this departure from the specification) | true | 3.1.8

overrideSupportsIntegrityEnhancementFacility

Should the driver return "true" for DatabaseMetaData.supportsIntegrityEnhancementFacility() even if the database doesn't support it to workaround applications that require this method to return "true" to signal support of foreign keys, even though the SQL specification states that this facility contains much more than just foreign key support (one such application being OpenOffice)?

false

3.1.12

padCharsWithSpace | If a result set column has the CHAR type and the value does not fill the amount of characters specified in the DDL for the column, should the driver pad the remaining characters with space (for ANSI compliance)? | false | 5.0.6
pedantic | Follow the JDBC spec to the letter. | false | 3.0.0
pinGlobalTxToPhysicalConnection | When using XAConnections, should the driver ensure that operations on a given XID are always routed to the same physical connection? This allows the XAConnection to support "XA START ... JOIN" after "XA END" has been called | false | 5.0.1

populateInsertRowWithDefaultValues

When using ResultSets that are CONCUR_UPDATABLE, should the driver pre-populate the "insert" row with default values from the DDL for the table used in the query so those values are immediately available for ResultSet accessors? This functionality requires a call to the database for metadata each time a result set of this type is created. If disabled (the default), the default values will be populated by the an internal call to refreshRow() which pulls back default values and/or values changed by triggers.

false

5.0.5

processEscapeCodesForPrepStmts | Should the driver process escape codes in queries that are prepared? | true | 3.1.12
relaxAutoCommit | If the version of MySQL the driver connects to does not support transactions, still allow calls to commit(), rollback() and setAutoCommit() (true/false, defaults to 'false')? | false | 2.0.13
retainStatementAfterResultSetClose | Should the driver retain the Statement reference in a ResultSet after ResultSet.close() has been called. This is not JDBC-compliant after JDBC-4.0. | false | 3.1.11
rollbackOnPooledClose | Should the driver issue a rollback() when the logical connection in a pool is closed? | true | 3.0.15
runningCTS13 | Enables workarounds for bugs in Sun's JDBC compliance testsuite version 1.3 | false | 3.1.7
serverTimezone | Override detection/mapping of timezone. Used when timezone from server doesn't map to Java timezone |  | 3.0.2
statementInterceptors | A comma-delimited list of classes that implement "com.mysql.jdbc.StatementInterceptor" that should be placed "in between" query execution to influence the results. StatementInterceptors are "chainable", the results returned by the "current" interceptor will be passed on to the next in in the chain, from left-to-right order, as specified in this property. |  | 5.1.1
strictFloatingPoint | Used only in older versions of compliance test | false | 3.0.0
strictUpdates | Should the driver do strict checking (all primary keys selected) of updatable result sets (true, false, defaults to 'true')? | true | 3.0.4
tinyInt1isBit | Should the driver treat the datatype TINYINT(1) as the BIT type (because the server silently converts BIT -> TINYINT(1) when creating tables)? | true | 3.0.16
transformedBitIsBoolean | If the driver converts TINYINT(1) to a different type, should it use BOOLEAN instead of BIT for future compatibility with MySQL-5.0, as MySQL-5.0 has a BIT type? | false | 3.1.9
treatUtilDateAsTimestamp | Should the driver treat java.util.Date as a TIMESTAMP for the purposes of PreparedStatement.setObject()? | true | 5.0.5
ultraDevHack | Create PreparedStatements for prepareCall() when required, because UltraDev is broken and issues a prepareCall() for _all_ statements? (true/false, defaults to 'false') | false | 2.0.3
useGmtMillisForDatetimes | Convert between session timezone and GMT before creating Date and Timestamp instances (value of "false" is legacy behavior, "true" leads to more JDBC-compliant behavior. | false | 3.1.12
useHostsInPrivileges | Add '@hostname' to users in DatabaseMetaData.getColumn/TablePrivileges() (true/false), defaults to 'true'. | true | 3.0.2
useInformationSchema | When connected to MySQL-5.0.7 or newer, should the driver use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA to derive information used by DatabaseMetaData? | false | 5.0.0
useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift | Should the driver use JDBC-compliant rules when converting TIME/TIMESTAMP/DATETIME values' timezone information for those JDBC arguments which take a java.util.Calendar argument? (Notice that this option is exclusive of the "useTimezone=true" configuration option.) | false | 5.0.0
useOldAliasMetadataBehavior | Should the driver use the legacy behavior for "AS" clauses on columns and tables, and only return aliases (if any) for ResultSetMetaData.getColumnName() or ResultSetMetaData.getTableName() rather than the original column/table name? | false | 5.0.4
useOldUTF8Behavior | Use the UTF-8 behavior the driver did when communicating with 4.0 and older servers | false | 3.1.6
useOnlyServerErrorMessages | Don't prepend 'standard' SQLState error messages to error messages returned by the server. | true | 3.0.15
useSSPSCompatibleTimezoneShift | If migrating from an environment that was using server-side prepared statements, and the configuration property "useJDBCCompliantTimeZoneShift" set to "true", use compatible behavior when not using server-side prepared statements when sending TIMESTAMP values to the MySQL server. | false | 5.0.5
useServerPrepStmts | Use server-side prepared statements if the server supports them? | false | 3.1.0
useSqlStateCodes | Use SQL Standard state codes instead of 'legacy' X/Open/SQL state codes (true/false), default is 'true' | true | 3.1.3
useStreamLengthsInPrepStmts | Honor stream length parameter in PreparedStatement/ResultSet.setXXXStream() method calls (true/false, defaults to 'true')? | true | 3.0.2
useTimezone | Convert time/date types between client and server timezones (true/false, defaults to 'false')? | false | 3.0.2
useUnbufferedInput | Don't use BufferedInputStream for reading data from the server | true | 3.0.11
yearIsDateType | Should the JDBC driver treat the MySQL type "YEAR" as a java.sql.Date, or as a SHORT? | true | 3.1.9
zeroDateTimeBehavior | What should happen when the driver encounters DATETIME values that are composed entirely of zeroes (used by MySQL to represent invalid dates)? Valid values are "exception", "round" and "convertToNull". | exception | 3.1.4

Connector/J also supports access to MySQL via named pipes on Windows NT/2000/XP using the NamedPipeSocketFactory as a plugin-socket factory via the socketFactory property. If you don't use a namedPipePath property, the default of '\\.\pipe\MySQL' will be used. If you use the `NamedPipeSocketFactory`, the hostname and port number values in the JDBC url will be ignored. You can enable this feature using:

    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`.

## 4.2. JDBC API Implementation Notes

MySQL Connector/J passes all of the tests in the publicly-available version of Sun's JDBC compliance test suite. 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

  Starting with Connector/J version 3.1.0, you can emulate Blobs with locators by adding the property 'emulateLocators=true' to your JDBC URL. Using this method, the driver will delay loading the actual Blob data until you retrieve the other data and then use retrieval methods (`getInputStream()`, `getBytes()`, and so forth) on the blob data stream.

  For this to work, you must use a column alias with the value of the column to the actual name of the Blob, for example:

      SELECT id, 'data' as blob_data from blobtable

  For this to work, you must also follow follow these rules:

  - The `SELECT` must also reference only one table, the table must have a primary key.

  - The `SELECT` must alias the original blob column name, specified as a string, to an alternate name.

  - The `SELECT` must cover all columns that make up the primary key.

  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.

  MySQL Enterprise MySQL Enterprise subscribers will find more information about type conversion in the Knowledge Base article, Type Conversions Supported by MySQL Connector/J. To subscribe to MySQL Enterprise see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/advisors.html.

- 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 (`getImportedKeys()`/`getExportedKeys()` and `getCrossReference()`) is only available from InnoDB tables. However, the driver uses `SHOW CREATE TABLE` to retrieve this information, so when other storage engines support foreign keys, the driver will transparently support them as well.

- 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:

  - During both server-side prepared statements and client-side emulation, large data is exchanged only when `PreparedStatement.execute()` is called.

  - 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.

  The earliest the locks these statements hold can be released (whether they be `MyISAM` table-level locks or row-level locks in some other storage engine such as `InnoDB`) is when the statement completes.

  If the statement is within scope of a transaction, then locks are released when the transaction completes (which implies that the statement needs to complete first). As with most other databases, statements are not complete until all the results pending on the statement are read or the active result set for the statement is closed.

  Therefore, if using streaming results, you should process them as quickly as possible if you want to maintain concurrent access to the tables referenced by the statement producing the result set.

- ResultSetMetaData

  The `isAutoIncrement()` method only works when using MySQL servers 4.0 and newer.

- Statement

  When using versions of the JDBC driver earlier than 3.2.1, and connected to server versions earlier than 5.0.3, the `setFetchSize()` method has no effect, other than to toggle result set streaming as described above.

  Connector/J 5.0.0 and later include support for both `Statement.cancel()` and `Statement.setQueryTimeout()`. Both require MySQL 5.0.0 or newer server, and require a separate connection to issue the `KILL QUERY` statement. In the case of `setQueryTimeout()`, the implementation creates an additional thread to handle the timeout functionality.

  ### Note

  Failures to cancel the statement for `setQueryTimeout()` may manifest themselves as `RuntimeException` rather than failing silently, as there is currently no way to unblock the thread that is executing the query being cancelled due to timeout expiration and have it throw the exception instead.

  MySQL does not support SQL cursors, and the JDBC driver doesn't emulate them, so "setCursorName()" has no effect.

  Connector/J 5.1.3 and later include two additional methods:

  - `setLocalInfileInputStream()` sets an `InputStream` instance that will be used to send data to the MySQL server for a `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE` statement rather than a `FileInputStream` or `URLInputStream` that represents the path given as an argument to the statement.

    This stream will be read to completion upon execution of a `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE` statement, and will automatically be closed by the driver, so it needs to be reset before each call to `execute*()` that would cause the MySQL server to request data to fulfill the request for `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE`.

    If this value is set to `NULL`, the driver will revert to using a `FileInputStream` or `URLInputStream` as required.

  - `getLocalInfileInputStream()` returns the `InputStream` instance that will be used to send data in response to a `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE` statement.

    This method returns `NULL` if no such stream has been set via `setLocalInfileInputStream()`.

## 4.3. Java, JDBC and MySQL Types

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.

Starting with Connector/J 3.1.0, the JDBC driver will issue warnings or throw DataTruncation exceptions as is required by the JDBC specification unless the connection was configured not to do so by using the property jdbcCompliantTruncation and setting it to `false`.

The conversions that are always guaranteed to work are listed in the following table:

Connection Properties - Miscellaneous.

These MySQL Data Types | Can always be converted to these Java types
`CHAR, VARCHAR, BLOB, TEXT, ENUM, and SET` | `java.lang.String, java.io.InputStream, java.io.Reader, java.sql.Blob, java.sql.Clob`
`FLOAT, REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION, NUMERIC, DECIMAL, TINYINT, SMALLINT, MEDIUMINT, INTEGER, BIGINT` | `java.lang.String, java.lang.Short, java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Long, java.lang.Double, java.math.BigDecimal`
`DATE, TIME, DATETIME, TIMESTAMP` | `java.lang.String, java.sql.Date, java.sql.Timestamp`

### 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.

The `ResultSet.getObject()` method uses the type conversions between MySQL and Java types, following the JDBC specification where appropriate. The value returned by `ResultSetMetaData.GetColumnClassName()` is also shown below. For more information on the `java.sql.Types` classes see Java 2 Platform Types.

MySQL Types to Java Types for ResultSet.getObject().

MySQL Type Name | Return value of `GetColumnClassName` | Returned as Java Class
BIT(1) (new in MySQL-5.0) | BIT | `java.lang.Boolean`
BIT( > 1) (new in MySQL-5.0) | BIT | `byte[]`
TINYINT | TINYINT | `java.lang.Boolean` if the configuration property `tinyInt1isBit` is set to `true` (the default) and the storage size is 1, or `java.lang.Integer` if not.
BOOL, BOOLEAN | TINYINT | See TINYINT, above as these are aliases for TINYINT(1), currently.
SMALLINT[(M)] [UNSIGNED] | SMALLINT [UNSIGNED] | `java.lang.Integer` (regardless if UNSIGNED or not)
MEDIUMINT[(M)] [UNSIGNED] | MEDIUMINT [UNSIGNED] | `java.lang.Integer,` if UNSIGNED `java.lang.Long` (C/J 3.1 and earlier), or `java.lang.Integer` for C/J 5.0 and later
INT,INTEGER[(M)] [UNSIGNED] | INTEGER [UNSIGNED] | `java.lang.Integer`, if UNSIGNED `java.lang.Long`
BIGINT[(M)] [UNSIGNED] | BIGINT [UNSIGNED] | `java.lang.Long`, if UNSIGNED `java.math.BigInteger`
FLOAT[(M,D)] | FLOAT | `java.lang.Float`
DOUBLE[(M,B)] | DOUBLE | `java.lang.Double`
DECIMAL[(M[,D])] | DECIMAL | `java.math.BigDecimal`
DATE | DATE | `java.sql.Date`
DATETIME | DATETIME | `java.sql.Timestamp`
TIMESTAMP[(M)] | TIMESTAMP | `java.sql.Timestamp`
TIME | TIME | `java.sql.Time`
YEAR[(2|4)] | YEAR | If `yearIsDateType` configuration property is set to false, then the returned object type is `java.sql.Short`. If set to true (the default) then an object of type `java.sql.Date` (with the date set to January 1st, at midnight).
CHAR(M) | CHAR | `java.lang.String` (unless the character set for the column is BINARY, then `byte[]` is returned.
VARCHAR(M) [BINARY] | VARCHAR | `java.lang.String` (unless the character set for the column is BINARY, then `byte[]` is returned.
BINARY(M) | BINARY | `byte[]`
VARBINARY(M) | VARBINARY | `byte[]`
TINYBLOB | TINYBLOB | `byte[]`
TINYTEXT | VARCHAR | `java.lang.String`
BLOB | BLOB | `byte[]`
TEXT | VARCHAR | `java.lang.String`
MEDIUMBLOB | MEDIUMBLOB | `byte[]`
MEDIUMTEXT | VARCHAR | `java.lang.String`
LONGBLOB | LONGBLOB | `byte[]`
LONGTEXT | VARCHAR | `java.lang.String`
ENUM('value1','value2',...) | CHAR | `java.lang.String`
SET('value1','value2',...) | CHAR | `java.lang.String`

## 4.4. Using 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()`, `setAsciiStream()`, `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 `character_set` system variable for server versions older than 4.1.0 and `character_set_server` for server versions 4.1.0 and newer. For more information, see Server Character Set and Collation.

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:

MySQL to Java Encoding Name Translations.

MySQL Character Set Name | Java-Style Character Encoding Name
ascii | US-ASCII
big5 | Big5
gbk | GBK
sjis | SJIS (or Cp932 or MS932 for MySQL Server < 4.1.11)
cp932 | Cp932 or MS932 (MySQL Server > 4.1.11)
gb2312 | EUC_CN
ujis | EUC_JP
euckr | EUC_KR
latin1 | ISO8859_1
latin2 | ISO8859_2
greek | ISO8859_7
hebrew | ISO8859_8
cp866 | Cp866
tis620 | TIS620
cp1250 | Cp1250
cp1251 | Cp1251
cp1257 | Cp1257
macroman | MacRoman
macce | MacCentralEurope
utf8 | UTF-8
ucs2 | UnicodeBig

### 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.

## 4.5. Connecting Securely Using 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:

- A JDK that includes JSSE (Java Secure Sockets Extension), like JDK-1.4.1 or newer. SSL does not currently work with a JDK that you can add JSSE to, like JDK-1.2.x or JDK-1.3.x due to the following JSSE bug: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4273544.html

- A MySQL server that supports SSL and has been compiled and configured to do so, which is MySQL-4.0.4 or later, see Using Secure Connections, for more information.

- A client certificate (covered later in this section)

The system works through two Java truststore files, one file contains the certificate information for the server (`truststore` in the examples below). The other file contains the certificate for the client (`keystore` in the examples below). All Java truststore files are password protected by supplying a suitable password to the keytool when you create the files. You need the file names and associated passwords to create an SSL connection.

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. Alternatively, use the CA Certificate that you have generated or been provided with by your SSL provider.

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. The keytool should be located in the `bin` subdirectory of your JDK or JRE):

    shell> keytool -import -alias mysqlServerCACert \
                                      -file cacert.pem -keystore truststore

You will need to enter the password when prompted for the keystore file. Interaction with keytool will look like this:

    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=Some-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 then have two options, you can either import the client certificate that matches the CA certificate you just imported, or you can create a new client certificate.

To import an existing certificate, the certificate should be in DER format. You can use openssl to convert an existing certificate into the new format. For example:

    shell> openssl x509 -outform DER -in client-cert.pem -out client.cert

You now need to import the converted certificate into your keystore using keytool:

    shell> keytool -import -file client.cert -keystore keystore -alias mysqlClientCertificate

To generate your own client certificate, use keytool to create a suitable certificate and add it to the `keystore` file:

     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. You can do this either on the command line:

    -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=path_to_keystore_file
    -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=password
    -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=path_to_truststore_file
    -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=password

Or you can set the values directly within the application:

     System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStore","path_to_keystore_file");
    System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword","password");
    System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore","path_to_truststore_file");
    System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword","password");

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.

## 4.6. Using Master/Slave Replication with ReplicationConnection

Starting with Connector/J 3.1.7, we've made available a variant of the driver that will automatically send queries to a read/write master, or a failover or round-robin loadbalanced set of slaves based on the state of `Connection.getReadOnly()` .

An application signals that it wants a transaction to be read-only by calling `Connection.setReadOnly(true)`, this replication-aware connection will use one of the slave connections, which are load-balanced per-vm using a round-robin scheme (a given connection is sticky to a slave unless that slave is removed from service). If you have a write transaction, or if you have a read that is time-sensitive (remember, replication in MySQL is asynchronous), set the connection to be not read-only, by calling `Connection.setReadOnly(false)` and the driver will ensure that further calls are sent to the master MySQL server. The driver takes care of propagating the current state of autocommit, isolation level, and catalog between all of the connections that it uses to accomplish this load balancing functionality.

To enable this functionality, use the " `com.mysql.jdbc.ReplicationDriver` " class when configuring your application server's connection pool or when creating an instance of a JDBC driver for your standalone application. Because it accepts the same URL format as the standard MySQL JDBC driver, `ReplicationDriver` does not currently work with `java.sql.DriverManager` -based connection creation unless it is the only MySQL JDBC driver registered with the `DriverManager` .

Here is a short, simple example of how ReplicationDriver might be used in a standalone application.

    import java.sql.Connection;
    import java.sql.ResultSet;
    import java.util.Properties;
    import com.mysql.jdbc.ReplicationDriver;
    public class ReplicationDriverDemo {
      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        ReplicationDriver driver = new ReplicationDriver();
        Properties props = new Properties();
        // We want this for failover on the slaves
        props.put("autoReconnect", "true");
        // We want to load balance between the slaves
        props.put("roundRobinLoadBalance", "true");
        props.put("user", "foo");
        props.put("password", "bar");
        //
        // Looks like a normal MySQL JDBC url, with a
        // comma-separated list of hosts, the first
        // being the 'master', the rest being any number
        // of slaves that the driver will load balance against
        //
        Connection conn =
            driver.connect("jdbc:mysql://master,slave1,slave2,slave3/test",
                props);
        //
        // Perform read/write work on the master
        // by setting the read-only flag to "false"
        //
        conn.setReadOnly(false);
        conn.setAutoCommit(false);
        conn.createStatement().executeUpdate("UPDATE some_table ....");
        conn.commit();
        //
        // Now, do a query from a slave, the driver automatically picks one
        // from the list
        //
        conn.setReadOnly(true);
        ResultSet rs =
          conn.createStatement().executeQuery("SELECT a,b FROM alt_table");
         .......
      }
    }

You may also want to investigate the Load Balancing JDBC Pool (lbpol) tool, which provides a wrapper around the standard JDBC driver and allows you to use DB connection pools that includes checks for system failures and uneven load distribution. For more information, see Load Balancing JDBC Pool (lbpool).

## 4.7. Mapping MySQL Error Numbers to SQLStates

The table below provides a mapping of the MySQL Error Numbers to `SQL States`

Table 4.1. Mapping of MySQL Error Numbers to SQLStates

MySQL Error Number | MySQL Error Name | Legacy (X/Open) SQLState | SQL Standard SQLState
--- | --- | --- | ---
1022 | ER_DUP_KEY | S1000 | 23000
1037 | ER_OUTOFMEMORY | S1001 | HY001
1038 | ER_OUT_OF_SORTMEMORY | S1001 | HY001
1040 | ER_CON_COUNT_ERROR | 08004 | 08004
1042 | ER_BAD_HOST_ERROR | 08004 | 08S01
1043 | ER_HANDSHAKE_ERROR | 08004 | 08S01
1044 | ER_DBACCESS_DENIED_ERROR | S1000 | 42000
1045 | ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR | 28000 | 28000
1047 | ER_UNKNOWN_COM_ERROR | 08S01 | HY000
1050 | ER_TABLE_EXISTS_ERROR | S1000 | 42S01
1051 | ER_BAD_TABLE_ERROR | 42S02 | 42S02
1052 | ER_NON_UNIQ_ERROR | S1000 | 23000
1053 | ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWN | S1000 | 08S01
1054 | ER_BAD_FIELD_ERROR | S0022 | 42S22
1055 | ER_WRONG_FIELD_WITH_GROUP | S1009 | 42000
1056 | ER_WRONG_GROUP_FIELD | S1009 | 42000
1057 | ER_WRONG_SUM_SELECT | S1009 | 42000
1058 | ER_WRONG_VALUE_COUNT | 21S01 | 21S01
1059 | ER_TOO_LONG_IDENT | S1009 | 42000
1060 | ER_DUP_FIELDNAME | S1009 | 42S21
1061 | ER_DUP_KEYNAME | S1009 | 42000
1062 | ER_DUP_ENTRY | S1009 | 23000
1063 | ER_WRONG_FIELD_SPEC | S1009 | 42000
1064 | ER_PARSE_ERROR | 42000 | 42000
1065 | ER_EMPTY_QUERY | 42000 | 42000
1066 | ER_NONUNIQ_TABLE | S1009 | 42000
1067 | ER_INVALID_DEFAULT | S1009 | 42000
1068 | ER_MULTIPLE_PRI_KEY | S1009 | 42000
1069 | ER_TOO_MANY_KEYS | S1009 | 42000
1070 | ER_TOO_MANY_KEY_PARTS | S1009 | 42000
1071 | ER_TOO_LONG_KEY | S1009 | 42000
1072 | ER_KEY_COLUMN_DOES_NOT_EXITS | S1009 | 42000
1073 | ER_BLOB_USED_AS_KEY | S1009 | 42000
1074 | ER_TOO_BIG_FIELDLENGTH | S1009 | 42000
1075 | ER_WRONG_AUTO_KEY | S1009 | 42000
1080 | ER_FORCING_CLOSE | S1000 | 08S01
1081 | ER_IPSOCK_ERROR | 08S01 | 08S01
1082 | ER_NO_SUCH_INDEX | S1009 | 42S12
1083 | ER_WRONG_FIELD_TERMINATORS | S1009 | 42000
1084 | ER_BLOBS_AND_NO_TERMINATED | S1009 | 42000
1090 | ER_CANT_REMOVE_ALL_FIELDS | S1000 | 42000
1091 | ER_CANT_DROP_FIELD_OR_KEY | S1000 | 42000
1101 | ER_BLOB_CANT_HAVE_DEFAULT | S1000 | 42000
1102 | ER_WRONG_DB_NAME | S1000 | 42000
1103 | ER_WRONG_TABLE_NAME | S1000 | 42000
1104 | ER_TOO_BIG_SELECT | S1000 | 42000
1106 | ER_UNKNOWN_PROCEDURE | S1000 | 42000
1107 | ER_WRONG_PARAMCOUNT_TO_PROCEDURE | S1000 | 42000
1109 | ER_UNKNOWN_TABLE | S1000 | 42S02
1110 | ER_FIELD_SPECIFIED_TWICE | S1000 | 42000
1112 | ER_UNSUPPORTED_EXTENSION | S1000 | 42000
1113 | ER_TABLE_MUST_HAVE_COLUMNS | S1000 | 42000
1115 | ER_UNKNOWN_CHARACTER_SET | S1000 | 42000
1118 | ER_TOO_BIG_ROWSIZE | S1000 | 42000
1120 | ER_WRONG_OUTER_JOIN | S1000 | 42000
1121 | ER_NULL_COLUMN_IN_INDEX | S1000 | 42000
1129 | ER_HOST_IS_BLOCKED | 08004 | HY000
1130 | ER_HOST_NOT_PRIVILEGED | 08004 | HY000
1131 | ER_PASSWORD_ANONYMOUS_USER | S1000 | 42000
1132 | ER_PASSWORD_NOT_ALLOWED | S1000 | 42000
1133 | ER_PASSWORD_NO_MATCH | S1000 | 42000
1136 | ER_WRONG_VALUE_COUNT_ON_ROW | S1000 | 21S01
1138 | ER_INVALID_USE_OF_NULL | S1000 | 42000
1139 | ER_REGEXP_ERROR | S1000 | 42000
1140 | ER_MIX_OF_GROUP_FUNC_AND_FIELDS | S1000 | 42000
1141 | ER_NONEXISTING_GRANT | S1000 | 42000
1142 | ER_TABLEACCESS_DENIED_ERROR | S1000 | 42000
1143 | ER_COLUMNACCESS_DENIED_ERROR | S1000 | 42000
1144 | ER_ILLEGAL_GRANT_FOR_TABLE | S1000 | 42000
1145 | ER_GRANT_WRONG_HOST_OR_USER | S1000 | 42000
1146 | ER_NO_SUCH_TABLE | S1000 | 42S02
1147 | ER_NONEXISTING_TABLE_GRANT | S1000 | 42000
1148 | ER_NOT_ALLOWED_COMMAND | S1000 | 42000
1149 | ER_SYNTAX_ERROR | S1000 | 42000
1152 | ER_ABORTING_CONNECTION | S1000 | 08S01
1153 | ER_NET_PACKET_TOO_LARGE | S1000 | 08S01
1154 | ER_NET_READ_ERROR_FROM_PIPE | S1000 | 08S01
1155 | ER_NET_FCNTL_ERROR | S1000 | 08S01
1156 | ER_NET_PACKETS_OUT_OF_ORDER | S1000 | 08S01
1157 | ER_NET_UNCOMPRESS_ERROR | S1000 | 08S01
1158 | ER_NET_READ_ERROR | S1000 | 08S01
1159 | ER_NET_READ_INTERRUPTED | S1000 | 08S01
1160 | ER_NET_ERROR_ON_WRITE | S1000 | 08S01
1161 | ER_NET_WRITE_INTERRUPTED | S1000 | 08S01
1162 | ER_TOO_LONG_STRING | S1000 | 42000
1163 | ER_TABLE_CANT_HANDLE_BLOB | S1000 | 42000
1164 | ER_TABLE_CANT_HANDLE_AUTO_INCREMENT | S1000 | 42000
1166 | ER_WRONG_COLUMN_NAME | S1000 | 42000
1167 | ER_WRONG_KEY_COLUMN | S1000 | 42000
1169 | ER_DUP_UNIQUE | S1000 | 23000
1170 | ER_BLOB_KEY_WITHOUT_LENGTH | S1000 | 42000
1171 | ER_PRIMARY_CANT_HAVE_NULL | S1000 | 42000
1172 | ER_TOO_MANY_ROWS | S1000 | 42000
1173 | ER_REQUIRES_PRIMARY_KEY | S1000 | 42000
1177 | ER_CHECK_NO_SUCH_TABLE | S1000 | 42000
1178 | ER_CHECK_NOT_IMPLEMENTED | S1000 | 42000
1179 | ER_CANT_DO_THIS_DURING_AN_TRANSACTION | S1000 | 25000
1184 | ER_NEW_ABORTING_CONNECTION | S1000 | 08S01
1189 | ER_MASTER_NET_READ | S1000 | 08S01
1190 | ER_MASTER_NET_WRITE | S1000 | 08S01
1203 | ER_TOO_MANY_USER_CONNECTIONS | S1000 | 42000
1205 | ER_LOCK_WAIT_TIMEOUT | 41000 | 41000
1207 | ER_READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION | S1000 | 25000
1211 | ER_NO_PERMISSION_TO_CREATE_USER | S1000 | 42000
1213 | ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK | 41000 | 40001
1216 | ER_NO_REFERENCED_ROW | S1000 | 23000
1217 | ER_ROW_IS_REFERENCED | S1000 | 23000
1218 | ER_CONNECT_TO_MASTER | S1000 | 08S01
1222 | ER_WRONG_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_SELECT | S1000 | 21000
1226 | ER_USER_LIMIT_REACHED | S1000 | 42000
1230 | ER_NO_DEFAULT | S1000 | 42000
1231 | ER_WRONG_VALUE_FOR_VAR | S1000 | 42000
1232 | ER_WRONG_TYPE_FOR_VAR | S1000 | 42000
1234 | ER_CANT_USE_OPTION_HERE | S1000 | 42000
1235 | ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_YET | S1000 | 42000
1239 | ER_WRONG_FK_DEF | S1000 | 42000
1241 | ER_OPERAND_COLUMNS | S1000 | 21000
1242 | ER_SUBQUERY_NO_1_ROW | S1000 | 21000
1247 | ER_ILLEGAL_REFERENCE | S1000 | 42S22
1248 | ER_DERIVED_MUST_HAVE_ALIAS | S1000 | 42000
1249 | ER_SELECT_REDUCED | S1000 | 01000
1250 | ER_TABLENAME_NOT_ALLOWED_HERE | S1000 | 42000
1251 | ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_MODE | S1000 | 08004
1252 | ER_SPATIAL_CANT_HAVE_NULL | S1000 | 42000
1253 | ER_COLLATION_CHARSET_MISMATCH | S1000 | 42000
1261 | ER_WARN_TOO_FEW_RECORDS | S1000 | 01000
1262 | ER_WARN_TOO_MANY_RECORDS | S1000 | 01000
1263 | ER_WARN_NULL_TO_NOTNULL | S1000 | 01000
1264 | ER_WARN_DATA_OUT_OF_RANGE | S1000 | 01000
1265 | ER_WARN_DATA_TRUNCATED | S1000 | 01000
1280 | ER_WRONG_NAME_FOR_INDEX | S1000 | 42000
1281 | ER_WRONG_NAME_FOR_CATALOG | S1000 | 42000
1286 | ER_UNKNOWN_STORAGE_ENGINE | S1000 | 42000

## Chapter 5. Connector/J Notes and Tips

## 5.1. Basic JDBC Concepts

This section provides some general JDBC background.

### 5.1.1. Connecting to MySQL Using the `DriverManager` Interface

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.

The following section of Java code shows how you might register MySQL Connector/J from the `main()` method of your application:

    import java.sql.Connection;
    import java.sql.DriverManager;
    import java.sql.SQLException;
    // Notice, do not import com.mysql.jdbc.*
    // or you will have problems!
    public class LoadDriver {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            try {
                // The newInstance() call is a work around for some
                // broken Java implementations
                Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                // handle the error
            }
    }

After the driver has been registered with the `DriverManager`, you can obtain a `Connection` instance that is connected to a particular database by calling `DriverManager.getConnection()`:

Example 5.1. 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 `Statement` and `PreparedStatement` objects, as well as retrieve metadata about the database. This is explained in the following sections.

### 5.1.2. Using Statements to Execute SQL

`Statement` objects allow you to execute basic SQL queries and retrieve the results through the `ResultSet` class which is described later.

To create a `Statement` instance, you call the `createStatement()` method on the `Connection` object you have retrieved via one of the `DriverManager.getConnection()` or `DataSource.getConnection()` methods described earlier.

Once you have a `Statement` instance, you can execute a `SELECT` query by calling the `executeQuery(String)` 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 it was an `UPDATE`, `INSERT`, or `DELETE` statement. If the statement was a `SELECT` query, you can retrieve the results by calling the `getResultSet()` method. If the statement was an `UPDATE`, `INSERT`, or `DELETE` statement, you can retrieve the affected rows count by calling `getUpdateCount()` on the `Statement` instance.

Example 5.2. Using java.sql.Statement to execute a `SELECT` query

    // assume that 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;
        }
    }

### 5.1.3. Using `CallableStatements` to Execute Stored Procedures

Starting with MySQL server version 5.0 when used with Connector/J 3.1.1 or newer, the `java.sql.CallableStatement` interface is fully implemented with the exception of the `getParameterMetaData()` method.

For more information on MySQL stored procedures, please refer to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/stored-procedures.html.

Connector/J exposes stored procedure functionality through JDBC's `CallableStatement` interface.

### Note

Current versions of MySQL server do not return enough information for the JDBC driver to provide result set metadata for callable statements. This means that when using `CallableStatement`, `ResultSetMetaData` may return `NULL`.

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 5.3. Stored Procedures

    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 5.4. 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 5.5. 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, and
       // uses the type 'INTEGER' for values returned from
       // getObject()
       //
       cStmt.registerOutParameter(2, Types.INTEGER);
       //
       // 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 5.6. 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.

   Although `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 5.7. 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(2); // index-based
           outputValue = cStmt.getInt("inOutParam"); // name-based
       ...

### 5.1.4. Retrieving `AUTO_INCREMENT` Column Values

Before version 3.0 of the JDBC API, there was no standard way of retrieving key values from databases that supported auto increment or identity columns. With older JDBC drivers for MySQL, you could always use a MySQL-specific method on the `Statement` interface, or issue the query `SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()` after issuing an `INSERT` to a table that had an `AUTO_INCREMENT` key. Using the MySQL-specific method call isn't portable, and issuing a `SELECT` to get the `AUTO_INCREMENT` key's value requires another round-trip to the database, which isn't as efficient as possible. The following code snippets demonstrate the three different ways to retrieve `AUTO_INCREMENT` values. First, we demonstrate the use of the new JDBC-3.0 method `getGeneratedKeys()` which is now the preferred method to use if you need to retrieve `AUTO_INCREMENT` keys and have access to JDBC-3.0. The second example shows how you can retrieve the same value using a standard `SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()` query. The final example shows how updatable result sets can retrieve the `AUTO_INCREMENT` value when using the `insertRow()` method.

Example 5.8. Retrieving `AUTO_INCREMENT` column values using `Statement.getGeneratedKeys()`

       Statement stmt = null;
       ResultSet rs = null;
       try {
        //
        // Create a Statement instance that we can use for
        // 'normal' result sets assuming you have a
        // Connection 'conn' to a MySQL database already
        // available
        stmt = conn.createStatement(java.sql.ResultSet.TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY,
                                    java.sql.ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
        //
        // Issue the DDL queries for the table for this example
        //
        stmt.executeUpdate("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS autoIncTutorial");
        stmt.executeUpdate(
                "CREATE TABLE autoIncTutorial ("
                + "priKey INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, "
                + "dataField VARCHAR(64), PRIMARY KEY (priKey))");
        //
        // Insert one row that will generate an AUTO INCREMENT
        // key in the 'priKey' field
        //
        stmt.executeUpdate(
                "INSERT INTO autoIncTutorial (dataField) "
                + "values ('Can I Get the Auto Increment Field?')",
                Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);
        //
        // Example of using Statement.getGeneratedKeys()
        // to retrieve the value of an auto-increment
        // value
        //
        int autoIncKeyFromApi = -1;
        rs = stmt.getGeneratedKeys();
        if (rs.next()) {
            autoIncKeyFromApi = rs.getInt(1);
        } else {
            // throw an exception from here
        }
        rs.close();
        rs = null;
        System.out.println("Key returned from getGeneratedKeys():"
            + autoIncKeyFromApi);
    } finally {
        if (rs != null) {
            try {
                rs.close();
            } catch (SQLException ex) {
                // ignore
            }
        }
        if (stmt != null) {
            try {
                stmt.close();
            } catch (SQLException ex) {
                // ignore
            }
        }
    }

Example 5.9. Retrieving `AUTO_INCREMENT` column values using `SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()`

       Statement stmt = null;
       ResultSet rs = null;
       try {
        //
        // Create a Statement instance that we can use for
        // 'normal' result sets.
        stmt = conn.createStatement();
        //
        // Issue the DDL queries for the table for this example
        //
        stmt.executeUpdate("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS autoIncTutorial");
        stmt.executeUpdate(
                "CREATE TABLE autoIncTutorial ("
                + "priKey INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, "
                + "dataField VARCHAR(64), PRIMARY KEY (priKey))");
        //
        // Insert one row that will generate an AUTO INCREMENT
        // key in the 'priKey' field
        //
        stmt.executeUpdate(
                "INSERT INTO autoIncTutorial (dataField) "
                + "values ('Can I Get the Auto Increment Field?')");
        //
        // Use the MySQL LAST_INSERT_ID()
        // function to do the same thing as getGeneratedKeys()
        //
        int autoIncKeyFromFunc = -1;
        rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()");
        if (rs.next()) {
            autoIncKeyFromFunc = rs.getInt(1);
        } else {
            // throw an exception from here
        }
        rs.close();
        System.out.println("Key returned from " +
                           "'SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()': " +
                           autoIncKeyFromFunc);
    } finally {
        if (rs != null) {
            try {
                rs.close();
            } catch (SQLException ex) {
                // ignore
            }
        }
        if (stmt != null) {
            try {
                stmt.close();
            } catch (SQLException ex) {
                // ignore
            }
        }
    }

Example 5.10. Retrieving `AUTO_INCREMENT` column values in `Updatable ResultSets`

       Statement stmt = null;
       ResultSet rs = null;
       try {
        //
        // Create a Statement instance that we can use for
        // 'normal' result sets as well as an 'updatable'
        // one, assuming you have a Connection 'conn' to
        // a MySQL database already available
        //
        stmt = conn.createStatement(java.sql.ResultSet.TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY,
                                    java.sql.ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
        //
        // Issue the DDL queries for the table for this example
        //
        stmt.executeUpdate("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS autoIncTutorial");
        stmt.executeUpdate(
                "CREATE TABLE autoIncTutorial ("
                + "priKey INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, "
                + "dataField VARCHAR(64), PRIMARY KEY (priKey))");
        //
        // Example of retrieving an AUTO INCREMENT key
        // from an updatable result set
        //
        rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT priKey, dataField "
           + "FROM autoIncTutorial");
        rs.moveToInsertRow();
        rs.updateString("dataField", "AUTO INCREMENT here?");
        rs.insertRow();
        //
        // the driver adds rows at the end
        //
        rs.last();
        //
        // We should now be on the row we just inserted
        //
        int autoIncKeyFromRS = rs.getInt("priKey");
        rs.close();
        rs = null;
        System.out.println("Key returned for inserted row: "
            + autoIncKeyFromRS);
    } finally {
        if (rs != null) {
            try {
                rs.close();
            } catch (SQLException ex) {
                // ignore
            }
        }
        if (stmt != null) {
            try {
                stmt.close();
            } catch (SQLException ex) {
                // ignore
            }
        }
    }

When you run the preceding example code, you should get the following output: Key returned from `getGeneratedKeys()`: 1 Key returned from `SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()`: 1 Key returned for inserted row: 2 You should be aware, that at times, it can be tricky to use the `SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()` query, as that function's value is scoped to a connection. So, if some other query happens on the same connection, the value will be overwritten. On the other hand, the `getGeneratedKeys()` method is scoped by the `Statement` instance, so it can be used even if other queries happen on the same connection, but not on the same `Statement` instance.

## 5.2. Using Connector/J with J2EE and Other Java Frameworks

This section describes how to use Connector/J in several contexts.

### 5.2.1. General J2EE Concepts

This section provides general background on J2EE concepts that pertain to use of Connector/J.

#### 5.2.1.1. Understanding Connection Pooling

Connection pooling is a technique of creating and managing a pool of connections that are ready for use by any thread that needs them.

This technique of pooling connections is based on the fact that most applications only need a thread to have access to a JDBC connection when they are actively processing a transaction, which usually take only milliseconds to complete. When not processing a transaction, the connection would otherwise sit idle. Instead, connection pooling allows the idle connection to be used by some other thread to do useful work.

In practice, when a thread needs to do work against a MySQL or other database with JDBC, it requests a connection from the pool. When the thread is finished using the connection, it returns it to the pool, so that it may be used by any other threads that want to use it.

When the connection is loaned out from the pool, it is used exclusively by the thread that requested it. From a programming point of view, it is the same as if your thread called `DriverManager.getConnection()` every time it needed a JDBC connection, however with connection pooling, your thread may end up using either a new, or already-existing connection.

Connection pooling can greatly increase the performance of your Java application, while reducing overall resource usage. The main benefits to connection pooling are:

- Reduced connection creation time

  Although this is not usually an issue with the quick connection setup that MySQL offers compared to other databases, creating new JDBC connections still incurs networking and JDBC driver overhead that will be avoided if connections are recycled.

- Simplified programming model

  When using connection pooling, each individual thread can act as though it has created its own JDBC connection, allowing you to use straight-forward JDBC programming techniques.

- Controlled resource usage

  If you don't use connection pooling, and instead create a new connection every time a thread needs one, your application's resource usage can be quite wasteful and lead to unpredictable behavior under load.

Remember that each connection to MySQL has overhead (memory, CPU, context switches, and so forth) on both the client and server side. Every connection limits how many resources there are available to your application as well as the MySQL server. Many of these resources will be used whether or not the connection is actually doing any useful work!

Connection pools can be tuned to maximize performance, while keeping resource utilization below the point where your application will start to fail rather than just run slower.

Luckily, Sun has standardized the concept of connection pooling in JDBC through the JDBC-2.0 Optional interfaces, and all major application servers have implementations of these APIs that work fine with MySQL Connector/J.

Generally, you configure a connection pool in your application server configuration files, and access it via the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI). The following code shows how you might use a connection pool from an application deployed in a J2EE application server:

Example 5.11. Using a connection pool with a J2EE application server

    import java.sql.Connection;
    import java.sql.SQLException;
    import java.sql.Statement;
    import javax.naming.InitialContext;
    import javax.sql.DataSource;
    public class MyServletJspOrEjb {
        public void doSomething() throws Exception {
            /*
             * Create a JNDI Initial context to be able to
             *  lookup  the DataSource
             *
             * In production-level code, this should be cached as
             * an instance or static variable, as it can
             * be quite expensive to create a JNDI context.
             *
             * Note: This code only works when you are using servlets
             * or EJBs in a J2EE application server. If you are
             * using connection pooling in standalone Java code, you
             * will have to create/configure datasources using whatever
             * mechanisms your particular connection pooling library
             * provides.
             */
            InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
             /*
              * Lookup the DataSource, which will be backed by a pool
              * that the application server provides. DataSource instances
              * are also a good candidate for caching as an instance
              * variable, as JNDI lookups can be expensive as well.
              */
            DataSource ds =
              (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/MySQLDB");
            /*
             * The following code is what would actually be in your
             * Servlet, JSP or EJB 'service' method...where you need
             * to work with a JDBC connection.
             */
            Connection conn = null;
            Statement stmt = null;
            try {
                conn = ds.getConnection();
                /*
                 * Now, use normal JDBC programming to work with
                 * MySQL, making sure to close each resource when you're
                 * finished with it, which allows the connection pool
                 * resources to be recovered as quickly as possible
                 */
                stmt = conn.createStatement();
                stmt.execute("SOME SQL QUERY");
                stmt.close();
                stmt = null;
                conn.close();
                conn = null;
            } finally {
                /*
                 * close any jdbc instances here that weren't
                 * explicitly closed during normal code path, so
                 * that we don't 'leak' resources...
                 */
                if (stmt != null) {
                    try {
                        stmt.close();
                    } catch (sqlexception sqlex) {
                        // ignore -- as we can't do anything about it here
                    }
                    stmt = null;
                }
                if (conn != null) {
                    try {
                        conn.close();
                    } catch (sqlexception sqlex) {
                        // ignore -- as we can't do anything about it here
                    }
                    conn = null;
                }
            }
        }
    }

As shown in the example above, after obtaining the JNDI InitialContext, and looking up the DataSource, the rest of the code should look familiar to anyone who has done JDBC programming in the past.

The most important thing to remember when using connection pooling is to make sure that no matter what happens in your code (exceptions, flow-of-control, and so forth), connections, and anything created by them (such as statements or result sets) are closed, so that they may be re-used, otherwise they will be stranded, which in the best case means that the MySQL server resources they represent (such as buffers, locks, or sockets) may be tied up for some time, or worst case, may be tied up forever.

What's the Best Size for my Connection Pool?

As with all other configuration rules-of-thumb, the answer is: it depends. Although the optimal size depends on anticipated load and average database transaction time, the optimum connection pool size is smaller than you might expect. If you take Sun's Java Petstore blueprint application for example, a connection pool of 15-20 connections can serve a relatively moderate load (600 concurrent users) using MySQL and Tomcat with response times that are acceptable.

To correctly size a connection pool for your application, you should create load test scripts with tools such as Apache JMeter or The Grinder, and load test your application.

An easy way to determine a starting point is to configure your connection pool's maximum number of connections to be unbounded, run a load test, and measure the largest amount of concurrently used connections. You can then work backward from there to determine what values of minimum and maximum pooled connections give the best performance for your particular application.

### 5.2.2. Using Connector/J with Tomcat

The following instructions are based on the instructions for Tomcat-5.x, available at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html which is current at the time this document was written.

First, install the .jar file that comes with Connector/J in `$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib` so that it is available to all applications installed in the container.

Next, Configure the JNDI DataSource by adding a declaration resource to `$CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml` in the context that defines your web application:

    <Context ....>
      ...
      <Resource name="jdbc/MySQLDB"
                   auth="Container"
                   type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>
      <!-- The name you used above, must match _exactly_ here!
           The connection pool will be bound into JNDI with the name
           "java:/comp/env/jdbc/MySQLDB"
      -->
      <ResourceParams name="jdbc/MySQLDB">
        <parameter>
          <name>factory</name>
          <value>org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory</value>
        </parameter>
        <!-- Don't set this any higher than max_connections on your
             MySQL server, usually this should be a 10 or a few 10's
             of connections, not hundreds or thousands -->
        <parameter>
          <name>maxActive</name>
          <value>10</value>
        </parameter>
        <!-- You don't want to many idle connections hanging around
             if you can avoid it, only enough to soak up a spike in
             the load -->
        <parameter>
          <name>maxIdle</name>
          <value>5</value>
        </parameter>
        <!-- Don't use autoReconnect=true, it's going away eventually
             and it's a crutch for older connection pools that couldn't
             test connections. You need to decide whether your application
             is supposed to deal with SQLExceptions (hint, it should), and
             how much of a performance penalty you're willing to pay
             to ensure 'freshness' of the connection -->
        <parameter>
          <name>validationQuery</name>
          <value>SELECT 1</value>
        </parameter>
       <!-- The most conservative approach is to test connections
            before they're given to your application. For most applications
            this is okay, the query used above is very small and takes
            no real server resources to process, other than the time used
            to traverse the network.
            If you have a high-load application you'll need to rely on
            something else. -->
        <parameter>
          <name>testOnBorrow</name>
          <value>true</value>
        </parameter>
       <!-- Otherwise, or in addition to testOnBorrow, you can test
            while connections are sitting idle -->
        <parameter>
          <name>testWhileIdle</name>
          <value>true</value>
        </parameter>
        <!-- You have to set this value, otherwise even though
             you've asked connections to be tested while idle,
             the idle evicter thread will never run -->
        <parameter>
          <name>timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis</name>
          <value>10000</value>
        </parameter>
        <!-- Don't allow connections to hang out idle too long,
             never longer than what wait_timeout is set to on the
             server...A few minutes or even fraction of a minute
             is sometimes okay here, it depends on your application
             and how much spikey load it will see -->
        <parameter>
          <name>minEvictableIdleTimeMillis</name>
          <value>60000</value>
        </parameter>
        <!-- Username and password used when connecting to MySQL -->
        <parameter>
         <name>username</name>
         <value>someuser</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
         <name>password</name>
         <value>somepass</value>
        </parameter>
        <!-- Class name for the Connector/J driver -->
        <parameter>
           <name>driverClassName</name>
           <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value>
        </parameter>
        <!-- The JDBC connection url for connecting to MySQL, notice
             that if you want to pass any other MySQL-specific parameters
             you should pass them here in the URL, setting them using the
             parameter tags above will have no effect, you will also
             need to use &amp; to separate parameter values as the
             ampersand is a reserved character in XML -->
        <parameter>
          <name>url</name>
          <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test</value>
        </parameter>
      </ResourceParams>
    </Context>

In general, you should follow the installation instructions that come with your version of Tomcat, as the way you configure datasources in Tomcat changes from time-to-time, and unfortunately if you use the wrong syntax in your XML file, you will most likely end up with an exception similar to the following:

    Error: java.sql.SQLException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'null ' SQL
    state: null

### 5.2.3. Using Connector/J with JBoss

These instructions cover JBoss-4.x. To make the JDBC driver classes available to the application server, copy the .jar file that comes with Connector/J to the `lib` directory for your server configuration (which is usually called `default`). Then, in the same configuration directory, in the subdirectory named deploy, create a datasource configuration file that ends with "-ds.xml", which tells JBoss to deploy this file as a JDBC Datasource. The file should have the following contents:

    <datasources>
        <local-tx-datasource>
            <!-- This connection pool will be bound into JNDI with the name
                 "java:/MySQLDB" -->
            <jndi-name>MySQLDB</jndi-name>
            <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dbname</connection-url>
            <driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class>
            <user-name>user</user-name>
            <password>pass</password>
            <min-pool-size>5</min-pool-size>
            <!-- Don't set this any higher than max_connections on your
             MySQL server, usually this should be a 10 or a few 10's
             of connections, not hundreds or thousands -->
            <max-pool-size>20</max-pool-size>
            <!-- Don't allow connections to hang out idle too long,
             never longer than what wait_timeout is set to on the
             server...A few minutes is usually okay here,
             it depends on your application
             and how much spikey load it will see -->
            <idle-timeout-minutes>5</idle-timeout-minutes>
            <!-- If you're using Connector/J 3.1.8 or newer, you can use
                 our implementation of these to increase the robustness
                 of the connection pool. -->
            <exception-sorter-class-name>
      com.mysql.jdbc.integration.jboss.ExtendedMysqlExceptionSorter
            </exception-sorter-class-name>
            <valid-connection-checker-class-name>
      com.mysql.jdbc.integration.jboss.MysqlValidConnectionChecker
            </valid-connection-checker-class-name>
        </local-tx-datasource>
    </datasources>

### 5.2.4. Using Connector/J with Spring

The Spring Framework is a Java-based application framework designed for assisting in application design by providing a way to configure components. The technique used by Spring is a well known design pattern called Dependency Injection (see Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern). This article will focus on Java-oriented access to MySQL databases with Spring 2.0. For those wondering, there is a .NET port of Spring appropriately named Spring.NET.

Spring is not only a system for configuring components, but also includes support for aspect oriented programming (AOP). This is one of the main benefits and the foundation for Spring's resource and transaction management. Spring also provides utilities for integrating resource management with JDBC and Hibernate.

For the examples in this section the MySQL world sample database will be used. The first task is to set up a MySQL data source through Spring. Components within Spring use the "bean" terminology. For example, to configure a connection to a MySQL server supporting the world sample database you might use:

    <util:map id="dbProps">
        <entry key="db.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
        <entry key="db.jdbcurl" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/world"/>
        <entry key="db.username" value="myuser"/>
        <entry key="db.password" value="mypass"/>
    </util:map>

In the above example we are assigning values to properties that will be used in the configuration. For the datasource configuration:

    <bean id="dataSource"
           class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="${db.driver}"/>
        <property name="url" value="${db.jdbcurl}"/>
        <property name="username" value="${db.username}"/>
        <property name="password" value="${db.password}"/>
    </bean>

The placeholders are used to provide values for properties of this bean. This means that you can specify all the properties of the configuration in one place instead of entering the values for each property on each bean. We do, however, need one more bean to pull this all together. The last bean is responsible for actually replacing the placeholders with the property values.

    <bean
     class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="properties" ref="dbProps"/>
    </bean>

Now that we have our MySQL data source configured and ready to go, we write some Java code to access it. The example below will retrieve three random cities and their corresponding country using the data source we configured with Spring.

    // Create a new application context. this processes the Spring config
    ApplicationContext ctx =
        new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("ex1appContext.xml");
    // Retrieve the data source from the application context
        DataSource ds = (DataSource) ctx.getBean("dataSource");
    // Open a database connection using Spring's DataSourceUtils
    Connection c = DataSourceUtils.getConnection(ds);
    try {
        // retrieve a list of three random cities
        PreparedStatement ps = c.prepareStatement(
            "select City.Name as 'City', Country.Name as 'Country' " +
            "from City inner join Country on City.CountryCode = Country.Code " +
            "order by rand() limit 3");
        ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery();
        while(rs.next()) {
            String city = rs.getString("City");
            String country = rs.getString("Country");
            System.out.printf("The city %s is in %s%n", city, country);
        }
    } catch (SQLException ex) {
        // something has failed and we print a stack trace to analyse the error
        ex.printStackTrace();
        // ignore failure closing connection
        try { c.close(); } catch (SQLException e) { }
    } finally {
        // properly release our connection
        DataSourceUtils.releaseConnection(c, ds);
    }

This is very similar to normal JDBC access to MySQL with the main difference being that we are using DataSourceUtils instead of the DriverManager to create the connection.

While it may seem like a small difference, the implications are somewhat far reaching. Spring manages this resource in a way similar to a container managed data source in a J2EE application server. When a connection is opened, it can be subsequently accessed in other parts of the code if it is synchronized with a transaction. This makes it possible to treat different parts of your application as transactional instead of passing around a database connection.

#### 5.2.4.1. Using `JdbcTemplate`

Spring makes extensive use of the Template method design pattern (see Template Method Pattern). Our immediate focus will be on the `JdbcTemplate` and related classes, specifically `NamedParameterJdbcTemplate`. The template classes handle obtaining and releasing a connection for data access when one is needed.

The next example shows how to use `NamedParameterJdbcTemplate` inside of a DAO (Data Access Object) class to retrieve a random city given a country code.

    public class Ex2JdbcDao {
         /**
         * Data source reference which will be provided by Spring.
         */
         private DataSource dataSource;

         /**
         * Our query to find a random city given a country code. Notice
         * the ":country" parameter towards the end. This is called a
         * named parameter.
         */
         private String queryString = "select Name from City " +
            "where CountryCode = :country order by rand() limit 1";

         /**
         * Retrieve a random city using Spring JDBC access classes.
         */
         public String getRandomCityByCountryCode(String cntryCode) {
             // A template that allows using queries with named parameters
             NamedParameterJdbcTemplate template =
             new NamedParameterJdbcTemplate(dataSource);
             // A java.util.Map is used to provide values for the parameters
             Map params = new HashMap();
             params.put("country", cntryCode);
             // We query for an Object and specify what class we are expecting
             return (String)template.queryForObject(queryString, params, String.class);
         }

        /**
        * A JavaBean setter-style method to allow Spring to inject the data source.
        * @param dataSource
        */
        public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource) {
            this.dataSource = dataSource;
        }
    }

The focus in the above code is on the `getRandomCityByCountryCode()` method. We pass a country code and use the `NamedParameterJdbcTemplate` to query for a city. The country code is placed in a Map with the key "country", which is the parameter is named in the SQL query.

To access this code, you need to configure it with Spring by providing a reference to the data source.

    <bean id="dao" class="code.Ex2JdbcDao">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
    </bean>

At this point, we can just grab a reference to the DAO from Spring and call `getRandomCityByCountryCode()`.

    // Create the application context
        ApplicationContext ctx =
        new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("ex2appContext.xml");
        // Obtain a reference to our DAO
        Ex2JdbcDao dao = (Ex2JdbcDao) ctx.getBean("dao");

        String countryCode = "USA";

        // Find a few random cities in the US
        for(int i = 0; i < 4; ++i)
            System.out.printf("A random city in %s is %s%n", countryCode,
                dao.getRandomCityByCountryCode(countryCode));

This example shows how to use Spring's JDBC classes to completely abstract away the use of traditional JDBC classes including `Connection` and `PreparedStatement`.

#### 5.2.4.2. Transactional JDBC Access

You might be wondering how we can add transactions into our code if we don't deal directly with the JDBC classes. Spring provides a transaction management package that not only replaces JDBC transaction management, but also allows declarative transaction management (configuration instead of code).

In order to use transactional database access, we will need to change the storage engine of the tables in the world database. The downloaded script explicitly creates MyISAM tables which do not support transactional semantics. The InnoDB storage engine does support transactions and this is what we will be using. We can change the storage engine with the following statements.

    ALTER TABLE City ENGINE=InnoDB;
    ALTER TABLE Country ENGINE=InnoDB;
    ALTER TABLE CountryLanguage ENGINE=InnoDB;

A good programming practice emphasized by Spring is separating interfaces and implementations. What this means is that we can create a Java interface and only use the operations on this interface without any internal knowledge of what the actual implementation is. We will let Spring manage the implementation and with this it will manage the transactions for our implementation.

First you create a simple interface:

    public interface Ex3Dao {
        Integer createCity(String name, String countryCode,
        String district, Integer population);
    }

This interface contains one method that will create a new city record in the database and return the id of the new record. Next you need to create an implementation of this interface.

    public class Ex3DaoImpl implements Ex3Dao {
        protected DataSource dataSource;
        protected SqlUpdate updateQuery;
        protected SqlFunction idQuery;

        public Integer createCity(String name, String countryCode,
            String district, Integer population) {
                updateQuery.update(new Object[] { name, countryCode,
                       district, population });
                return getLastId();
            }

        protected Integer getLastId() {
            return idQuery.run();
        }
    }

You can see that we only operate on abstract query objects here and don't deal directly with the JDBC API. Also, this is the complete implementation. All of our transaction management will be dealt with in the configuration. To get the configuration started, we need to create the DAO.

    <bean id="dao" class="code.Ex3DaoImpl">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
        <property name="updateQuery">...</property>
        <property name="idQuery">...</property>
    </bean>

Now you need to set up the transaction configuration. The first thing you must do is create transaction manager to manage the data source and a specification of what transaction properties are required for for the `dao` methods.

    <bean id="transactionManager"
      class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
    </bean>

    <tx:advice id="txAdvice" transaction-manager="transactionManager">
        <tx:attributes>
            <tx:method name="*"/>
        </tx:attributes>
    </tx:advice>

The preceding code creates a transaction manager that handles transactions for the data source provided to it. The `txAdvice` uses this transaction manager and the attributes specify to create a transaction for all methods. Finally you need to apply this advice with an AOP pointcut.

    <aop:config>
        <aop:pointcut id="daoMethods"
            expression="execution(* code.Ex3Dao.*(..))"/>
         <aop:advisor advice-ref="txAdvice" pointcut-ref="daoMethods"/>
    </aop:config>

This basically says that all methods called on the `Ex3Dao` interface will be wrapped in a transaction. To make use of this, you only have to retrieve the `dao` from the application context and call a method on the `dao` instance.

    Ex3Dao dao = (Ex3Dao) ctx.getBean("dao");
    Integer id = dao.createCity(name,  countryCode, district, pop);

We can verify from this that there is no transaction management happening in our Java code and it's all configured with Spring. This is a very powerful notion and regarded as one of the most beneficial features of Spring.

#### 5.2.4.3. Connection Pooling

In many sitations, such as web applications, there will be a large number of small database transactions. When this is the case, it usually makes sense to create a pool of database connections available for web requests as needed. Although MySQL does not spawn an extra process when a connection is made, there is still a small amount of overhead to create and set up the connection. Pooling of connections also alleviates problems such as collecting large amounts of sockets in the `TIME_WAIT` state.

Setting up pooling of MySQL connections with Spring is as simple as changing the data source configuration in the application context. There are a number of configurations that we can use. The first example is based on the Jakarta Commons DBCP library. The example below replaces the source configuration that was based on `DriverManagerDataSource` with DBCP's BasicDataSource.

    <bean id="dataSource" destroy-method="close"
      class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="${db.driver}"/>
        <property name="url" value="${db.jdbcurl}"/>
        <property name="username" value="${db.username}"/>
        <property name="password" value="${db.password}"/>
        <property name="initialSize" value="3"/>
    </bean>

The configuration of the two solutions is very similar. The difference is that DBCP will pool connections to the database instead of creating a new connection every time one is requested. We have also set a parameter here called `initialSize`. This tells DBCP that we want three connections in the pool when it is created.

Another way to configure connection pooling is to configure a data source in our J2EE application server. Using JBoss as an example, you can set up the MySQL connection pool by creating a file called `mysql-local-ds.xml` and placing it in the server/default/deploy directory in JBoss. Once we have this setup, we can use JNDI to look it up. With Spring, this lookup is very simple. The data source configuration looks like this.

    <jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="java:MySQL_DS"/>

## 5.3. Common Problems and Solutions

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.

Questions

- 6.3.1: 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.

- 6.3.2: My application throws an SQLException 'No Suitable Driver'. Why is this happening?

- 6.3.3: 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

- 6.3.4: I have a servlet/application that works fine for a day, and then stops working overnight

- 6.3.5: I'm trying to use JDBC-2.0 updatable result sets, and I get an exception saying my result set is not updatable.

- 6.3.6: I cannot connect to the MySQL server using Connector/J, and I'm sure the connection paramters are correct.

- 6.3.7: I am trying to connect to my MySQL server within my application, but I get the following error and stack trace:

      java.net.SocketException
      MESSAGE: Software caused connection abort: recv failed
      STACKTRACE:
      java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: recv failed
      at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
      at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
      at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:1392)
      at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readPacket(MysqlIO.java:1414)
      at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.doHandshake(MysqlIO.java:625)
      at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:1926)
      at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:452)
      at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:411)

- 6.3.8: My application is deployed through JBoss and I am using transactions to handle the statements on the MySQL database. Under heavy loads I am getting a error and stack trace, but these only occur after a fixed period of heavy activity.

- 6.3.9: When using gcj an `java.io.CharConversionException` is raised when working with certain character sequences.

- 6.3.10: Updating a table that contains a primary key that is either `FLOAT` or compound primary key that uses `FLOAT` fails to update the table and raises an exception.

Questions and Answers

6.3.1: 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 the connection should be allowed.

You must add the necessary security credentials to the MySQL server for this to happen, using the `GRANT` statement to your MySQL Server. See `GRANT` Syntax, for more information.

### 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

Changing privileges and permissions improperly in MySQL can potentially cause your server installation to not have optimal security properties.

6.3.2: My application throws an SQLException 'No Suitable Driver'. Why is this happening?

There are three possible causes for this error:

- The Connector/J driver is not in your `CLASSPATH`, see Chapter 2, Connector/J Installation.

- The format of your connection URL is incorrect, or you are referencing the wrong JDBC driver.

- When using DriverManager, the `jdbc.drivers` system property has not been populated with the location of the Connector/J driver.

6.3.3: 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).

6.3.4: 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 Section 4.1, “Driver/Datasource Class Names, URL Syntax and Configuration Properties for 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 5.12. 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 40001 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) || "40001".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));
    }

### Note

Use of the `autoReconnect` option is not recommended because there is no safe method of reconnecting to the MySQL server without risking some corruption of the connection state or database state information. Instead, you should use a connection pool which will enable your application to connect to the MySQL server using an available connection from the pool. The `autoReconnect` facility is deprecated, and may be removed in a future release.

6.3.5: 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 every primary key and the query can only span one table (that is, no joins). This is outlined in the JDBC specification.

Note that this issue only occurs when using updatable result sets, and is caused because Connector/J is unable to guarantee that it can identify the correct rows within the result set to be updated without having a unique reference to each row. There is no requirement to have a unique field on a table if you are using `UPDATE` or `DELETE` statements on a table where you can individually specify the criteria to be matched using a `WHERE` clause.

6.3.6: I cannot connect to the MySQL server using Connector/J, and I'm sure the connection paramters are correct.

Make sure that the `skip-networking` option has not been enabled on your server. Connector/J must be able to communicate with your server over TCP/IP, named sockets are not supported. Also ensure that you are not filtering connections through a Firewall or other network security system. For more informaiton, see `Can't connect to [local] MySQL server`.

6.3.7: I am trying to connect to my MySQL server within my application, but I get the following error and stack trace:

    java.net.SocketException
    MESSAGE: Software caused connection abort: recv failed
    STACKTRACE:
    java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: recv failed
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:1392)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readPacket(MysqlIO.java:1414)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.doHandshake(MysqlIO.java:625)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:1926)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:452)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:411)

The error probably indicates that you are using a older version of the Connector/J JDBC driver (2.0.14 or 3.0.x) and you are trying to connect to a MySQL server with version 4.1x or newer. The older drivers are not compatible with 4.1 or newer of MySQL as they do not support the newer authentication mechanisms.

It is likely that the older version of the Connector/J driver exists within your application directory or your `CLASSPATH` includes the older Connector/J package.

6.3.8: My application is deployed through JBoss and I am using transactions to handle the statements on the MySQL database. Under heavy loads I am getting a error and stack trace, but these only occur after a fixed period of heavy activity.

This is a JBoss, not Connector/J, issue and is connected to the use of transactions. Under heavy loads the time taken for transactions to complete can increase, and the error is caused because you have exceeded the predefined timeout.

You can increase the timeout value by setting the `TransactionTimeout` attribute to the `TransactionManagerService` within the `/conf/jboss-service.xml` file (pre-4.0.3) or `/deploy/jta-service.xml` for JBoss 4.0.3 or later. See TransactionTimeoute within the JBoss wiki for more information.

6.3.9: When using gcj an `java.io.CharConversionException` is raised when working with certain character sequences.

This is a known issue with gcj which raises an exception when it reaches an unknown character or one it cannot convert. You should add `useJvmCharsetConverters=true` to your connection string to force character conversion outside of the gcj libraries, or try a different JDK.

6.3.10: Updating a table that contains a primary key that is either `FLOAT` or compound primary key that uses `FLOAT` fails to update the table and raises an exception.

Connector/J adds conditions to the `WHERE` clause during an `UPDATE` to check the old values of the primary key. If there is no match then Connector/J considers this a failure condition and raises an exception.

The problem is that rounding differences between supplied values and the values stored in the database may mean that the values never match, and hence the update fails. The issue will affect all queries, not just those from Connector/J.

To prevent this issue, use a primary key that does not use `FLOAT`. If you have to use a floating point column in your primary key use `DOUBLE` or `DECIMAL` types in place of `FLOAT`.

## Chapter 6. Connector/J Support

## 6.1. Connector/J Community Support

MySQL AB provides assistance to the user community by means of its mailing lists. For Connector/J related issues, you can get help from experienced users by using the MySQL and Java mailing list. Archives and subscription information is available online at http://lists.mysql.com/java.

For information about subscribing to MySQL mailing lists or to browse list archives, visit http://lists.mysql.com/. See MySQL Mailing Lists.

Community support from experienced users is also available through the JDBC Forum. You may also find help from other users in the other MySQL Forums, located at http://forums.mysql.com. See MySQL Community Support at the MySQL Forums.

## 6.2. How to Report Connector/J 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 from 'jdbc:mysql:///test', 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/.

## 6.3. Connector/J Change History

The Connector/J Change History (Changelog) is located with the main Changelog for MySQL. See Appendix A, MySQL Connector/J Change History.

## Appendix A. MySQL Connector/J Change History

## A.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.x

### A.1.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.6 (Not yet released)

Functionality added or changed:

- Multiple result sets were not supported when using streaming mode to return data. Both normal statements and the resul sets from stored procedures now return multiple results sets, with the exception of result sets using registered `OUTPUT` paramaters. (Bug#33678)

- XAConnections and datasources have been updated to the JDBC-4.0 standard.

- The profiler event handling has been made extensible via the `profilerEventHandler` connection property.

- Add the `verifyServerCertificate` propery. If set to "false" the driver will not verify the server's certificate when `useSSL` is set to "true"

  When using this feature, the keystore parameters should be specified by the `clientCertificateKeyStore*` properties, rather than system properties, as the JSSE doesn't it straightforward to have a non-verifying trust store and the "default" key store.

Bugs fixed:

- `MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource` does not support `ReplicationConnection`. Notice that we implemented `com.mysql.jdbc.Connection` for `ReplicationConnection`, however, only accessors from ConnectionProperties are implemented (not the mutators), and they return values from the currently active connection. All other methods from `com.mysql.jdbc.Connection` are implemented, and operate on the currently active connection, with the exception of `resetServerState()` and `changeUser()`. (Bug#34937)

- `ResultSet.getTimestamp()` returns incorrect values for month/day of `TIMESTAMP`s when using server-side prepared statements (not enabled by default). (Bug#34913)

- `RowDataStatic` does't always set the metadata in `ResultSetRow`, which can lead to failures when unpacking `DATE`, `TIME`, `DATETIME` and `TIMESTAMP` types when using absolute, relative, and previous result set navigation methods. (Bug#34762)

- When calling `isValid()` on an active connection, if the timeout is non-zero then the `Connection` is invalidated even if the `Connection` is valid. (Bug#34703)

- It was not possible to truncate a `BLOB` using `Blog.truncate()` when using 0 as an argument. (Bug#34677)

- When using a cursor fetch for a statement, the internal prepared statement could cause a memory leak until the connection was closed. The internal prepared statement is now deleted when the corresponding result set is closed. (Bug#34518)

- When retrieving the column type name of a geometry field, the driver would return `UNKNOWN` instead of `GEOMETRY`. (Bug#34194)

- Statements with batched values do not return correct values for `getGeneratedKeys()` when `rewriteBatchedStatements` is set to `true`, and the statement has an `ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE` clause. (Bug#34093)

- The internal class `ResultSetInternalMethods` referenced the non-public class `com.mysql.jdbc.CachedResultSetMetaData`. (Bug#33823)

- A `NullPointerException` could be raised when using client-side prepared statements and enabled the prepared statement cache using the `cachePrepStmts`. (Bug#33734)

- Using server side cursors and cursor fetch, the table metadata information would return the data type name instead of the column name. (Bug#33594)

- `ResultSet.getTimestamp()` would throw a `NullPointerException` instead of a `SQLException` when called on an empty `ResultSet`. (Bug#33162)

- Load balancing connection using best response time would incorrectly "stick" to hosts that were down when the connection was first created.

  We solve this problem with a black list that is used during the picking of new hosts. If the black list ends up including all configured hosts, the driver will retry for a configurable number of times (the `retriesAllDown` configuration property, with a default of 120 times), sleeping 250ms between attempts to pick a new connection.

  We've also went ahead and made the balancing strategy extensible. To create a new strategy, implement the interface `com.mysql.jdbc.BalanceStrategy` (which also includes our standard "extension" interface), and tell the driver to use it by passing in the class name via the `loadBalanceStrategy` configuration property. (Bug#32877)

- During a Daylight Savings Time (DST) switchover, there was no way to store two timestamp/datetime values , as the hours end up being the same when sent as the literal that MySQL requires.

  Note that to get this scenario to work with MySQL (since it doesn't support per-value timezones), you need to configure your server (or session) to be in UTC, and tell the driver not to use the legacy date/time code by setting `useLegacyDatetimeCode` to "false". This will cause the driver to always convert to/from the server and client timezone consistently.

  This bug fix also fixes Bug#15604, by adding entirely new date/time handling code that can be switched on by `useLegacyDatetimeCode` being set to "false" as a JDBC configuration property. For Connector/J 5.1.x, the default is "true", in trunk and beyond it will be "false" (i.e. the old date/time handling code will be deprecated) (Bug#32577, Bug#15604)

- When unpacking rows directly, we don't hand off error message packets to the internal method which decodes them correctly, so no exception is raised, and the driver than hangs trying to read rows that aren't there. This tends to happen when calling stored procedures, as normal SELECTs won't have an error in this spot in the protocol unless an I/O error occurs. (Bug#32246)

- When using a connection from `ConnectionPoolDataSource`, some `Connection.prepareStatement()` methods would return null instead of the prepared statement. (Bug#32101)

- Using `CallableStatement.setNull()` on a stored function would throw an `ArrayIndexOutOfBounds` exception when setting the last parameter to null. (Bug#31823)

- `MysqlValidConnectionChecker` doesn't properly handle connections created using `ReplicationConnection`. (Bug#31790)

- Retrieving the server version information for an active connection could return invalid information if the default character encoding on the host was not ASCII compatible. (Bug#31192)

- Further fixes have been made to this bug in the event that a node is non-responsive. Connector/J will now try a different random node instead of waiting for the node to recover before continuing. (Bug#31053)

- `ResultSet` returned by `Statement.getGeneratedKeys()` is not closed automatically when statement that created it is closed. (Bug#30508)

- `DatabaseMetadata.getColumns()` doesn't return the correct column names if the connection character isn't UTF-8. A bug in MySQL server compounded the issue, but was fixed within the MySQL 5.0 release cycle. The fix includes changes to all the sections of the code that access the server metadata. (Bug#20491)

- Fixed `ResultSetMetadata.getColumnName()` for result sets returned from `Statement.getGeneratedKeys()` - it was returning null instead of "GENERATED_KEY" as in 5.0.x.

### A.1.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.5 (09 October 2007)

The following features are new, compared to the 5.0 series of Connector/J

- Support for JDBC-4.0 `NCHAR`, `NVARCHAR` and `NCLOB` types.

- JDBC-4.0 support for setting per-connection client information (which can be viewed in the comments section of a query via `SHOW PROCESSLIST` on a MySQL server, or can be extended to support custom persistence of the information via a public interface).

- Support for JDBC-4.0 XML processing via JAXP interfaces to DOM, SAX and StAX.

- JDBC-4.0 standardized unwrapping to interfaces that include vendor extensions.

Functionality added or changed:

- Added `autoSlowLog` configuration property, overrides `slowQueryThreshold*` properties, driver determines slow queries by those that are slower than 5 * stddev of the mean query time (outside the 96% percentile).

Bugs fixed:

- When a connection is in read-only mode, queries that are wrapped in parentheses were incorrectly identified DML statements. (Bug#28256)

### A.1.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.4 (Not Released)

Only released internally.

### A.1.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.3 (10 September 2007)

The following features are new, compared to the 5.0 series of Connector/J

- Support for JDBC-4.0 `NCHAR`, `NVARCHAR` and `NCLOB` types.

- JDBC-4.0 support for setting per-connection client information (which can be viewed in the comments section of a query via `SHOW PROCESSLIST` on a MySQL server, or can be extended to support custom persistence of the information via a public interface).

- Support for JDBC-4.0 XML processing via JAXP interfaces to DOM, SAX and StAX.

- JDBC-4.0 standardized unwrapping to interfaces that include vendor extensions.

Functionality added or changed:

- Connector/J now connects using an initial character set of `utf-8` solely for the purpose of authentication to allow user names or database names in any character set to be used in the JDBC connection URL. (Bug#29853)

- Added two configuration parameters:

  - `blobsAreStrings` — Should the driver always treat BLOBs as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for `GROUP BY` clauses. Defaults to false.

  - `functionsNeverReturnBlobs` — Should the driver always treat data from functions returning `BLOBs` as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for `GROUP BY` clauses. Defaults to false.

- Setting `rewriteBatchedStatements` to `true` now causes CallableStatements with batched arguments to be re-written in the form "CALL (...); CALL (...); ..." to send the batch in as few client-server round trips as possible.

- The driver now picks appropriate internal row representation (whole row in one buffer, or individual byte[]s for each column value) depending on heuristics, including whether or not the row has `BLOB` or `TEXT` types and the overall row-size. The threshold for row size that will cause the driver to use a buffer rather than individual byte[]s is configured by the configuration property `largeRowSizeThreshold`, which has a default value of 2KB.

- The data (and how it's stored) for `ResultSet` rows are now behind an interface which allows us (in some cases) to allocate less memory per row, in that for "streaming" result sets, we re-use the packet used to read rows, since only one row at a time is ever active.

- Added experimental support for statement "interceptors" via the `com.mysql.jdbc.StatementInterceptor` interface, examples are in `com/mysql/jdbc/interceptors`. Implement this interface to be placed "in between" query execution, so that it can be influenced (currently experimental).

- The driver will automatically adjust the server session variable `net_write_timeout` when it determines its been asked for a "streaming" result, and resets it to the previous value when the result set has been consumed. (The configuration property is named `netTimeoutForStreamingResults`, with a unit of seconds, the value '0' means the driver will not try and adjust this value).

- JDBC-4.0 ease-of-development features including auto-registration with the `DriverManager` via the service provider mechanism, standardized Connection validity checks and categorized `SQLExceptions` based on recoverability/retry-ability and class of the underlying error.

- `Statement.setQueryTimeout()`s now affect the entire batch for batched statements, rather than the individual statements that make up the batch.

- Errors encountered during `Statement`/`PreparedStatement`/`CallableStatement.executeBatch()` when `rewriteBatchStatements` has been set to `true` now return `BatchUpdateExceptions` according to the setting of `continueBatchOnError`.

  If `continueBatchOnError` is set to `true`, the update counts for the "chunk" that were sent as one unit will all be set to `EXECUTE_FAILED`, but the driver will attempt to process the remainder of the batch. You can determine which "chunk" failed by looking at the update counts returned in the `BatchUpdateException`.

  If `continueBatchOnError` is set to "false", the update counts returned will contain all updates up-to and including the failed "chunk", with all counts for the failed "chunk" set to `EXECUTE_FAILED`.

  Since MySQL doesn't return multiple error codes for multiple-statements, or for multi-value `INSERT`/`REPLACE`, it is the application's responsibility to handle determining which item(s) in the "chunk" actually failed.

- New methods on com.mysql.jdbc.Statement: `setLocalInfileInputStream()` and `getLocalInfileInputStream()`:

  - `setLocalInfileInputStream()` sets an `InputStream` instance that will be used to send data to the MySQL server for a `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE` statement rather than a `FileInputStream` or `URLInputStream` that represents the path given as an argument to the statement.

    This stream will be read to completion upon execution of a `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE` statement, and will automatically be closed by the driver, so it needs to be reset before each call to `execute*()` that would cause the MySQL server to request data to fulfill the request for `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE`.

    If this value is set to `NULL`, the driver will revert to using a `FileInputStream` or `URLInputStream` as required.

  - `getLocalInfileInputStream()` returns the `InputStream` instance that will be used to send data in response to a `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE` statement.

    This method returns `NULL` if no such stream has been set via `setLocalInfileInputStream()`.

- Setting `useBlobToStoreUTF8OutsideBMP` to `true` tells the driver to treat `[MEDIUM/LONG]BLOB` columns as `[LONG]VARCHAR` columns holding text encoded in UTF-8 that has characters outside the BMP (4-byte encodings), which MySQL server can't handle natively.

  Set `utf8OutsideBmpExcludedColumnNamePattern` to a regex so that column names matching the given regex will still be treated as `BLOBs` The regex must follow the patterns used for the `java.util.regex`package. The default is to exclude no columns, and include all columns.

  Set `utf8OutsideBmpIncludedColumnNamePattern` to specify exclusion rules to utf8OutsideBmpExcludedColumnNamePattern". The regex must follow the patterns used for the `java.util.regex` package.

Bugs fixed:

- `setObject(int, Object, int, int)` delegate in PreparedStatmentWrapper delegates to wrong method. (Bug#30892)

- NPE with null column values when `padCharsWithSpace` is set to true. (Bug#30851)

- Collation on `VARBINARY` column types would be misidentified. A fix has been added, but this fix only works for MySQL server versions 5.0.25 and newer, since earlier versions didn't consistently return correct metadata for functions, and thus results from subqueries and functions were indistinguishable from each other, leading to type-related bugs. (Bug#30664)

- An `ArithmeticException` or `NullPointerException` would be raised when the batch had zero members and `rewriteBatchedStatements=true` when `addBatch()` was never called, or `executeBatch()` was called immediately after `clearBatch()`. (Bug#30550)

- Closing a load-balanced connection would cause a `ClassCastException`. (Bug#29852)

- Connection checker for JBoss didn't use same method parameters via reflection, causing connections to always seem "bad". (Bug#29106)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getTypeInfo()` for the types `DECIMAL` and `NUMERIC` will return a precision of 254 for server versions older than 5.0.3, 64 for versions 5.0.3-5.0.5 and 65 for versions newer than 5.0.5. (Bug#28972)

- `CallableStatement.executeBatch()` doesn't work when connection property `noAccessToProcedureBodies` has been set to `true`.

  The fix involves changing the behavior of `noAccessToProcedureBodies`,in that the driver will now report all paramters as "IN" paramters but allow callers to call registerOutParameter() on them without throwing an exception. (Bug#28689)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()` doesn't contain `SCOPE_*` or `IS_AUTOINCREMENT` columns. (Bug#27915)

- Schema objects with identifiers other than the connection character aren't retrieved correctly in `ResultSetMetadata`. (Bug#27867)

- `Connection.getServerCharacterEncoding()` doesn't work for servers with version >= 4.1. (Bug#27182)

- The automated SVN revisions in `DBMD.getDriverVersion()`. The SVN revision of the directory is now inserted into the version information during the build. (Bug#21116)

- Specifying a "validation query" in your connection pool that starts with "/* ping */" _exactly_ will cause the driver to instead send a ping to the server and return a fake result set (much lighter weight), and when using a ReplicationConnection or a LoadBalancedConnection, will send the ping across all active connections.

### A.1.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.2 (29 June 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Functionality added or changed:

- Setting the configuration property `rewriteBatchedStatements` to `true` will now cause the driver to rewrite batched prepared statements with more than 3 parameter sets in a batch into multi-statements (separated by ";") if they are not plain (that is, without `SELECT` or `ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE` clauses) `INSERT` or `REPLACE` statements.

### A.1.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.1 (22 June 2007)

This is a new Alpha development release, adding new features and fixing recently discovered bugs.

Functionality added or changed:

- Incompatible Change: Pulled vendor-extension methods of `Connection` implementation out into an interface to support `java.sql.Wrapper` functionality from `ConnectionPoolDataSource`. The vendor extensions are javadoc'd in the `com.mysql.jdbc.Connection` interface.

  For those looking further into the driver implementation, it is not an API that is used for plugability of implementations inside our driver (which is why there are still references to `ConnectionImpl` throughout the code).

  We've also added server and client `prepareStatement()` methods that cover all of the variants in the JDBC API.

  `Connection.serverPrepare(String)` has been re-named to `Connection.serverPrepareStatement()` for consistency with `Connection.clientPrepareStatement()`.

- Row navigation now causes any streams/readers open on the result set to be closed, as in some cases we're reading directly from a shared network packet and it will be overwritten by the "next" row.

- Made it possible to retrieve prepared statement parameter bindings (to be used in `StatementInterceptors`, primarily).

- Externalized the descriptions of connection properties.

- The data (and how it's stored) for `ResultSet` rows are now behind an interface which allows us (in some cases) to allocate less memory per row, in that for "streaming" result sets, we re-use the packet used to read rows, since only one row at a time is ever active.

- Similar to `Connection`, we pulled out vendor extensions to `Statement` into an interface named `com.mysql.Statement`, and moved the `Statement` class into `com.mysql.StatementImpl`. The two methods (javadoc'd in `com.mysql.Statement` are `enableStreamingResults()`, which already existed, and `disableStreamingResults()` which sets the statement instance back to the fetch size and result set type it had before `enableStreamingResults()` was called.

- Driver now picks appropriate internal row representation (whole row in one buffer, or individual byte[]s for each column value) depending on heuristics, including whether or not the row has `BLOB` or `TEXT` types and the overall row-size. The threshold for row size that will cause the driver to use a buffer rather than individual byte[]s is configured by the configuration property `largeRowSizeThreshold`, which has a default value of 2KB.

- Added experimental support for statement "interceptors" via the `com.mysql.jdbc.StatementInterceptor` interface, examples are in `com/mysql/jdbc/interceptors`.

  Implement this interface to be placed "in between" query execution, so that you can influence it. (currently experimental).

  `StatementInterceptors` are "chainable" when configured by the user, the results returned by the "current" interceptor will be passed on to the next on in the chain, from left-to-right order, as specified by the user in the JDBC configuration property `statementInterceptors`.

- See the sources (fully javadoc'd) for `com.mysql.jdbc.StatementInterceptor` for more details until we iron out the API and get it documented in the manual.

- Setting `rewriteBatchedStatements` to `true` now causes `CallableStatements` with batched arguments to be re-written in the form `CALL (...); CALL (...); ...` to send the batch in as few client-server round trips as possible.

### A.1.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.0 (11 April 2007)

This is the first public alpha release of the current Connector/J 5.1 development branch, providing an insight to upcoming features. Although some of these are still under development, this release includes the following new features and changes (in comparison to the current Connector/J 5.0 production release):

Important change: Due to a number of issues with the use of server-side prepared statements, Connector/J 5.0.5 has disabled their use by default. The disabling of server-side prepared statements does not affect the operation of the connector in any way.

To enable server-side prepared statements you must add the following configuration property to your connector string:

    useServerPrepStmts=true

The default value of this property is `false` (that is, Connector/J does not use server-side prepared statements).

### Note

The disabling of server-side prepared statements does not affect the operation of the connector. However, if you use the `useTimezone=true` connection option and use client-side prepared statements (instead of server-side prepared statements) you should also set `useSSPSCompatibleTimezoneShift=true`.

Functionality added or changed:

- Refactored `CommunicationsException` into a JDBC-3.0 version, and a JDBC-4.0 version (which extends `SQLRecoverableException`, now that it exists).

  ### Note

  This change means that if you were catching `com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException` in your applications instead of looking at the SQLState class of `08`, and are moving to Java 6 (or newer), you need to change your imports to that exception to be `com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException`, as the old class will not be instantiated for communications link-related errors under Java 6.

- Added support for JDBC-4.0 categorized `SQLExceptions`.

- Added support for JDBC-4.0's `NCLOB`, and `NCHAR`/`NVARCHAR` types.

- `com.mysql.jdbc.java6.javac` — full path to your Java-6 javac executable

- Added support for JDBC-4.0's SQLXML interfaces.

- Re-worked Ant buildfile to build JDBC-4.0 classes separately, as well as support building under Eclipse (since Eclipse can't mix/match JDKs).

  To build, you must set `JAVA_HOME` to J2SDK-1.4.2 or Java-5, and set the following properties on your Ant command line:

  - `com.mysql.jdbc.java6.javac` — full path to your Java-6 javac executable

  - `com.mysql.jdbc.java6.rtjar` — full path to your Java-6 `rt.jar` file

- New feature — driver will automatically adjust session variable `net_write_timeout` when it determines it has been asked for a "streaming" result, and resets it to the previous value when the result set has been consumed. (configuration property is named `netTimeoutForStreamingResults` value and has a unit of seconds, the value `0` means the driver will not try and adjust this value).

- Added support for JDBC-4.0's client information. The backend storage of information provided via `Connection.setClientInfo()` and retrieved by `Connection.getClientInfo()` is pluggable by any class that implements the `com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4ClientInfoProvider` interface and has a no-args constructor.

  The implementation used by the driver is configured using the `clientInfoProvider` configuration property (with a default of value of `com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4CommentClientInfoProvider`, an implementation which lists the client information as a comment prepended to every query sent to the server).

  This functionality is only available when using Java-6 or newer.

- `com.mysql.jdbc.java6.rtjar` — full path to your Java-6 `rt.jar` file

- Added support for JDBC-4.0's `Wrapper` interface.

## A.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.x

### A.2.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.8 (09 October 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

- `blobsAreStrings` — Should the driver always treat BLOBs as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for `GROUP BY` clauses. Defaults to false.

- Added two configuration parameters:

  - `blobsAreStrings` — Should the driver always treat BLOBs as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for `GROUP BY` clauses. Defaults to false.

  - `functionsNeverReturnBlobs` — Should the driver always treat data from functions returning `BLOBs` as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for `GROUP BY` clauses. Defaults to false.

- `functionsNeverReturnBlobs` — Should the driver always treat data from functions returning `BLOBs` as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for `GROUP BY` clauses. Defaults to false.

- XAConnections now start in auto-commit mode (as per JDBC-4.0 specification clarification).

- Driver will now fall back to sane defaults for `max_allowed_packet` and `net_buffer_length` if the server reports them incorrectly (and will log this situation at `WARN` level, since it's actually an error condition).

Bugs fixed:

- Connections established using URLs of the form `jdbc:mysql:loadbalance://` weren't doing failover if they tried to connect to a MySQL server that was down. The driver now attempts connections to the next "best" (depending on the load balance strategy in use) server, and continues to attempt connecting to the next "best" server every 250 milliseconds until one is found that is up and running or 5 minutes has passed.

  If the driver gives up, it will throw the last-received `SQLException`. (Bug#31053)

- `setObject(int, Object, int, int)` delegate in PreparedStatmentWrapper delegates to wrong method. (Bug#30892)

- NPE with null column values when `padCharsWithSpace` is set to true. (Bug#30851)

- Collation on `VARBINARY` column types would be misidentified. A fix has been added, but this fix only works for MySQL server versions 5.0.25 and newer, since earlier versions didn't consistently return correct metadata for functions, and thus results from subqueries and functions were indistinguishable from each other, leading to type-related bugs. (Bug#30664)

- An `ArithmeticException` or `NullPointerException` would be raised when the batch had zero members and `rewriteBatchedStatements=true` when `addBatch()` was never called, or `executeBatch()` was called immediately after `clearBatch()`. (Bug#30550)

- Closing a load-balanced connection would cause a `ClassCastException`. (Bug#29852)

- Connection checker for JBoss didn't use same method parameters via reflection, causing connections to always seem "bad". (Bug#29106)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getTypeInfo()` for the types `DECIMAL` and `NUMERIC` will return a precision of 254 for server versions older than 5.0.3, 64 for versions 5.0.3-5.0.5 and 65 for versions newer than 5.0.5. (Bug#28972)

- `CallableStatement.executeBatch()` doesn't work when connection property `noAccessToProcedureBodies` has been set to `true`.

  The fix involves changing the behavior of `noAccessToProcedureBodies`,in that the driver will now report all paramters as "IN" paramters but allow callers to call registerOutParameter() on them without throwing an exception. (Bug#28689)

- When a connection is in read-only mode, queries that are wrapped in parentheses were incorrectly identified DML statements. (Bug#28256)

- `UNSIGNED` types not reported via `DBMD.getTypeInfo()`, and capitalization of type names is not consistent between `DBMD.getColumns()`, `RSMD.getColumnTypeName()` and `DBMD.getTypeInfo()`.

  This fix also ensures that the precision of `UNSIGNED MEDIUMINT` and `UNSIGNED BIGINT` is reported correctly via `DBMD.getColumns()`. (Bug#27916)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()` doesn't contain `SCOPE_*` or `IS_AUTOINCREMENT` columns. (Bug#27915)

- Schema objects with identifiers other than the connection character aren't retrieved correctly in `ResultSetMetadata`. (Bug#27867)

- Cached metadata with `PreparedStatement.execute()` throws `NullPointerException`. (Bug#27412)

- `Connection.getServerCharacterEncoding()` doesn't work for servers with version >= 4.1. (Bug#27182)

- The automated SVN revisions in `DBMD.getDriverVersion()`. The SVN revision of the directory is now inserted into the version information during the build. (Bug#21116)

- Specifying a "validation query" in your connection pool that starts with "/* ping */" _exactly_ will cause the driver to instead send a ping to the server and return a fake result set (much lighter weight), and when using a ReplicationConnection or a LoadBalancedConnection, will send the ping across all active connections.

### A.2.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.7 (20 July 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

- The driver will now automatically set `useServerPrepStmts` to `true` when `useCursorFetch` has been set to `true`, since the feature requires server-side prepared statements in order to function.

- `tcpKeepAlive` - Should the driver set SO_KEEPALIVE (default `true`)?

- Give more information in EOFExceptions thrown out of MysqlIO (how many bytes the driver expected to read, how many it actually read, say that communications with the server were unexpectedly lost).

- Driver detects when it is running in a ColdFusion MX server (tested with version 7), and uses the configuration bundle `coldFusion`, which sets `useDynamicCharsetInfo` to `false` (see previous entry), and sets `useLocalSessionState` and autoReconnect to `true`.

- `tcpNoDelay` - Should the driver set SO_TCP_NODELAY (disabling the Nagle Algorithm, default `true`)?

- Added configuration property `slowQueryThresholdNanos` - if `useNanosForElapsedTime` is set to `true`, and this property is set to a non-zero value the driver will use this threshold (in nanosecond units) to determine if a query was slow, instead of using millisecond units.

- `tcpRcvBuf` - Should the driver set SO_RCV_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property.

- Setting `useDynamicCharsetInfo` to `false` now causes driver to use static lookups for collations as well (makes ResultSetMetadata.isCaseSensitive() much more efficient, which leads to performance increase for ColdFusion, which calls this method for every column on every table it sees, it appears).

- Added configuration properties to allow tuning of TCP/IP socket parameters:

  - `tcpNoDelay` - Should the driver set SO_TCP_NODELAY (disabling the Nagle Algorithm, default `true`)?

  - `tcpKeepAlive` - Should the driver set SO_KEEPALIVE (default `true`)?

  - `tcpRcvBuf` - Should the driver set SO_RCV_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property.

  - `tcpSndBuf` - Should the driver set SO_SND_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property.

  - `tcpTrafficClass` - Should the driver set traffic class or type-of-service fields? See the documentation for java.net.Socket.setTrafficClass() for more information.

- Setting the configuration parameter `useCursorFetch` to `true` for MySQL-5.0+ enables the use of cursors that allow Connector/J to save memory by fetching result set rows in chunks (where the chunk size is set by calling setFetchSize() on a Statement or ResultSet) by using fully-materialized cursors on the server.

- `tcpSndBuf` - Should the driver set SO_SND_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property.

- `tcpTrafficClass` - Should the driver set traffic class or type-of-service fields? See the documentation for java.net.Socket.setTrafficClass() for more information.

- Added new debugging functionality - Setting configuration property `includeInnodbStatusInDeadlockExceptions` to `true` will cause the driver to append the output of `SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS` to deadlock-related exceptions, which will enumerate the current locks held inside InnoDB.

- Added configuration property `useNanosForElapsedTime` - for profiling/debugging functionality that measures elapsed time, should the driver try to use nanoseconds resolution if available (requires JDK >= 1.5)?

  ### Note

  If `useNanosForElapsedTime` is set to `true`, and this property is set to "0" (or left default), then elapsed times will still be measured in nanoseconds (if possible), but the slow query threshold will be converted from milliseconds to nanoseconds, and thus have an upper bound of approximately 2000 milliseconds (as that threshold is represented as an integer, not a long).

Bugs fixed:

- Don't send any file data in response to LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE if the feature is disabled at the client side. This is to prevent a malicious server or man-in-the-middle from asking the client for data that the client is not expecting. Thanks to Jan Kneschke for discovering the exploit and Andrey "Poohie" Hristov, Konstantin Osipov and Sergei Golubchik for discussions about implications and possible fixes. (Bug#29605)

- Parser in client-side prepared statements runs to end of statement, rather than end-of-line for '#' comments. Also added support for '--' single-line comments. (Bug#28956)

- Parser in client-side prepared statements eats character following '/' if it's not a multi-line comment. (Bug#28851)

- PreparedStatement.getMetaData() for statements containing leading one-line comments is not returned correctly.

  As part of this fix, we also overhauled detection of DML for `executeQuery()` and `SELECT`s for `executeUpdate()` in plain and prepared statements to be aware of the same types of comments. (Bug#28469)

### A.2.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.6 (15 May 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

- Added an experimental load-balanced connection designed for use with SQL nodes in a MySQL Cluster/NDB environment (This is not for master-slave replication. For that, we suggest you look at `ReplicationConnection` or `lbpool`).

  If the JDBC URL starts with `jdbc:mysql:loadbalance://host-1,host-2,...host-n`, the driver will create an implementation of `java.sql.Connection` that load balances requests across a series of MySQL JDBC connections to the given hosts, where the balancing takes place after transaction commit.

  Therefore, for this to work (at all), you must use transactions, even if only reading data.

  Physical connections to the given hosts will not be created until needed.

  The driver will invalidate connections that it detects have had communication errors when processing a request. A new connection to the problematic host will be attempted the next time it is selected by the load balancing algorithm.

  There are two choices for load balancing algorithms, which may be specified by the `loadBalanceStrategy` JDBC URL configuration property:

  - `random` — the driver will pick a random host for each request. This tends to work better than round-robin, as the randomness will somewhat account for spreading loads where requests vary in response time, while round-robin can sometimes lead to overloaded nodes if there are variations in response times across the workload.

  - `bestResponseTime` — the driver will route the request to the host that had the best response time for the previous transaction.

- `bestResponseTime` — the driver will route the request to the host that had the best response time for the previous transaction.

- Added configuration property `padCharsWithSpace` (defaults to `false`). If set to `true`, and a result set column has the `CHAR` type and the value does not fill the amount of characters specified in the DDL for the column, the driver will pad the remaining characters with space (for ANSI compliance).

- When `useLocalSessionState` is set to `true` and connected to a MySQL-5.0 or later server, the JDBC driver will now determine whether an actual `commit` or `rollback` statement needs to be sent to the database when `Connection.commit()` or `Connection.rollback()` is called.

  This is especially helpful for high-load situations with connection pools that always call `Connection.rollback()` on connection check-in/check-out because it avoids a round-trip to the server.

- Added configuration property `useDynamicCharsetInfo`. If set to `false` (the default), the driver will use a per-connection cache of character set information queried from the server when necessary, or when set to `true`, use a built-in static mapping that is more efficient, but isn't aware of custom character sets or character sets implemented after the release of the JDBC driver.

  ### Note

  This only affects the `padCharsWithSpace` configuration property and the `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnDisplayWidth()` method.

- New configuration property, `enableQueryTimeouts` (default `true`).

  When enabled, query timeouts set via `Statement.setQueryTimeout()` use a shared `java.util.Timer` instance for scheduling. Even if the timeout doesn't expire before the query is processed, there will be memory used by the `TimerTask` for the given timeout which won't be reclaimed until the time the timeout would have expired if it hadn't been cancelled by the driver. High-load environments might want to consider disabling this functionality. (this configuration property is part of the `maxPerformance` configuration bundle).

- Give better error message when "streaming" result sets, and the connection gets clobbered because of exceeding `net_write_timeout` on the server.

- `random` — the driver will pick a random host for each request. This tends to work better than round-robin, as the randomness will somewhat account for spreading loads where requests vary in response time, while round-robin can sometimes lead to overloaded nodes if there are variations in response times across the workload.

- `com.mysql.jdbc.[NonRegistering]Driver` now understands URLs of the format `jdbc:mysql:replication://` and `jdbc:mysql:loadbalance://` which will create a ReplicationConnection (exactly like when using `[NonRegistering]ReplicationDriver`) and an experimental load-balanced connection designed for use with SQL nodes in a MySQL Cluster/NDB environment, respectively.

  In an effort to simplify things, we're working on deprecating multiple drivers, and instead specifying different core behavior based upon JDBC URL prefixes, so watch for `[NonRegistering]ReplicationDriver` to eventually disappear, to be replaced with `com.mysql.jdbc[NonRegistering]Driver` with the new URL prefix.

- Fixed issue where a failed-over connection would let an application call `setReadOnly(false)`, when that call should be ignored until the connection is reconnected to a writable master unless `failoverReadOnly` had been set to `false`.

- Driver will now use `INSERT INTO ... VALUES (DEFAULT)`form of statement for updatable result sets for `ResultSet.insertRow()`, rather than pre-populating the insert row with values from `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()`(which results in a `SHOW FULL COLUMNS` on the server for every result set). If an application requires access to the default values before `insertRow()` has been called, the JDBC URL should be configured with `populateInsertRowWithDefaultValues` set to `true`.

  This fix specifically targets performance issues with ColdFusion and the fact that it seems to ask for updatable result sets no matter what the application does with them.

- More intelligent initial packet sizes for the "shared" packets are used (512 bytes, rather than 16K), and initial packets used during handshake are now sized appropriately as to not require reallocation.

Bugs fixed:

- More useful error messages are generated when the driver thinks a result set is not updatable. (Thanks to Ashley Martens for the patch). (Bug#28085)

- `Connection.getTransactionIsolation()` uses "`SHOW VARIABLES LIKE`" which is very inefficient on MySQL-5.0+ servers. (Bug#27655)

- Fixed issue where calling `getGeneratedKeys()` on a prepared statement after calling `execute()` didn't always return the generated keys (`executeUpdate()` worked fine however). (Bug#27655)

- `CALL /* ... */ `some_proc`()` doesn't work. As a side effect of this fix, you can now use `/* */` and `#` comments when preparing statements using client-side prepared statement emulation.

  If the comments happen to contain parameter markers (`?`), they will be treated as belonging to the comment (that is, not recognized) rather than being a parameter of the statement.

  ### Note

  The statement when sent to the server will contain the comments as-is, they're not stripped during the process of preparing the `PreparedStatement` or `CallableStatement`.

  (Bug#27400)

- `ResultSet.get*()` with a column index < 1 returns misleading error message. (Bug#27317)

- Using `ResultSet.get*()` with a column index less than 1 returns a misleading error message. (Bug#27317)

- Comments in DDL of stored procedures/functions confuse procedure parser, and thus metadata about them can not be created, leading to inability to retrieve said metadata, or execute procedures that have certain comments in them. (Bug#26959)

- Fast date/time parsing doesn't take into account `00:00:00` as a legal value. (Bug#26789)

- `PreparedStatement` is not closed in `BlobFromLocator.getBytes()`. (Bug#26592)

- When the configuration property `useCursorFetch` was set to `true`, sometimes server would return new, more exact metadata during the execution of the server-side prepared statement that enables this functionality, which the driver ignored (using the original metadata returned during `prepare()`), causing corrupt reading of data due to type mismatch when the actual rows were returned. (Bug#26173)

- `CallableStatements` with `OUT/INOUT` parameters that are "binary" (`BLOB`, `BIT`, `(VAR)BINARY`, `JAVA_OBJECT`) have extra 7 bytes. (Bug#25715)

- Whitespace surrounding storage/size specifiers in stored procedure parameters declaration causes `NumberFormatException` to be thrown when calling stored procedure on JDK-1.5 or newer, as the Number classes in JDK-1.5+ are whitespace intolerant. (Bug#25624)

- Client options not sent correctly when using SSL, leading to stored procedures not being able to return results. Thanks to Don Cohen for the bug report, testcase and patch. (Bug#25545)

- `Statement.setMaxRows()` is not effective on result sets materialized from cursors. (Bug#25517)

- `BIT(> 1)` is returned as `java.lang.String` from `ResultSet.getObject()` rather than `byte[]`. (Bug#25328)

### A.2.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.5 (02 March 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

- Usage Advisor will now issue warnings for result sets with large numbers of rows. You can configure the trigger value by using the `resultSetSizeThreshold` parameter, which has a default value of 100.

- The `rewriteBatchedStatements` feature can now be used with server-side prepared statements.

- Important change: Due to a number of issues with the use of server-side prepared statements, Connector/J 5.0.5 has disabled their use by default. The disabling of server-side prepared statements does not affect the operation of the connector in any way.

  To enable server-side prepared statements you must add the following configuration property to your connector string:

      useServerPrepStmts=true

  The default value of this property is `false` (that is, Connector/J does not use server-side prepared statements).

- Improved speed of `datetime` parsing for ResultSets that come from plain or non-server-side prepared statements. You can enable old implementation with `useFastDateParsing=false` as a configuration parameter.

- Usage Advisor now detects empty results sets and does not report on columns not referenced in those empty sets.

- Fixed logging of XA commands sent to server, it's now configurable via `logXaCommands` property (defaults to `false`).

- Added configuration property `localSocketAddress`,which is the hostname or IP address given to explicitly configure the interface that the driver will bind the client side of the TCP/IP connection to when connecting.

- We've added a new configuration option `treatUtilDateAsTimestamp`, which is `false` by default, as (1) We already had specific behavior to treat java.util.Date as a java.sql.Timestamp because it's useful to many folks, and (2) that behavior will very likely be required for drivers JDBC-post-4.0.

Bugs fixed:

- Connection property `socketFactory` wasn't exposed via correctly named mutator/accessor, causing data source implementations that use JavaBean naming conventions to set properties to fail to set the property (and in the case of SJAS, fail silently when trying to set this parameter). (Bug#26326)

- A query execution which timed out did not always throw a `MySQLTimeoutException`. (Bug#25836)

- Storing a `java.util.Date` object in a `BLOB` column would not be serialized correctly during `setObject`. (Bug#25787)

- Timer instance used for `Statement.setQueryTimeout()` created per-connection, rather than per-VM, causing memory leak. (Bug#25514)

- `EscapeProcessor` gets confused by multiple backslashes. We now push the responsibility of syntax errors back on to the server for most escape sequences. (Bug#25399)

- `INOUT` parameters in `CallableStatements` get doubly-escaped. (Bug#25379)

- When using the `rewriteBatchedStatements` connection option with `PreparedState.executeBatch()` an internal memory leak would occur. (Bug#25073)

- Fixed issue where field-level for metadata from `DatabaseMetaData` when using `INFORMATION_SCHEMA` didn't have references to current connections, sometimes leading to Null Pointer Exceptions (NPEs) when introspecting them via `ResultSetMetaData`. (Bug#25073)

- `StringUtils.indexOfIgnoreCaseRespectQuotes()` isn't case-insensitive on the first character of the target. This bug also affected `rewriteBatchedStatements` functionality when prepared statements did not use uppercase for the `VALUES` clause. (Bug#25047)

- Client-side prepared statement parser gets confused by in-line comments `/*...*/` and therefore cannot rewrite batch statements or reliably detect the type of statements when they are used. (Bug#25025)

- Results sets from `UPDATE` statements that are part of multi-statement queries would cause an `SQLException` error, "Result is from UPDATE". (Bug#25009)

- Specifying `US-ASCII` as the character set in a connection to a MySQL 4.1 or newer server does not map correctly. (Bug#24840)

- Using `DatabaseMetaData.getSQLKeywords()` does not return a all of the of the reserved keywords for the current MySQL version. Current implementation returns the list of reserved words for MySQL 5.1, and does not distinguish between versions. (Bug#24794)

- Calling `Statement.cancel()` could result in a Null Pointer Exception (NPE). (Bug#24721)

- Using `setFetchSize()` breaks prepared `SHOW` and other commands. (Bug#24360)

- Calendars and timezones are now lazily instantiated when required. (Bug#24351)

- Using `DATETIME` columns would result in time shifts when `useServerPrepStmts` was true. The reason was due to different behavior when using client-side compared to server-side prepared statements and the `useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift` option. This is now fixed if moving from server-side prepared statements to client-side prepared statements by setting `useSSPSCompatibleTimezoneShift` to `true`, as the driver can't tell if this is a new deployment that never used server-side prepared statements, or if it is an existing deployment that is switching to client-side prepared statements from server-side prepared statements. (Bug#24344)

- Connector/J now returns a better error message when server doesn't return enough information to determine stored procedure/function parameter types. (Bug#24065)

- A connection error would occur when connecting to a MySQL server with certain character sets. Some collations/character sets reported as "unknown" (specifically `cias` variants of existing character sets), and inability to override the detected server character set. (Bug#23645)

- Inconsistency between `getSchemas` and `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`. (Bug#23304)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getSchemas()` doesn't return a `TABLE_CATALOG` column. (Bug#23303)

- When using a JDBC connection URL that is malformed, the `NonRegisteringDriver.getPropertyInfo` method will throw a Null Pointer Exception (NPE). (Bug#22628)

- Some exceptions thrown out of `StandardSocketFactory` were needlessly wrapped, obscuring their true cause, especially when using socket timeouts. (Bug#21480)

- When using a server-side prepared statement the driver would send timestamps to the server using nanoseconds instead of milliseconds. (Bug#21438)

- When using server-side prepared statements and timestamp columns, value would be incorrectly populated (with nanoseconds, not microseconds). (Bug#21438)

- `ParameterMetaData` throws `NullPointerException` when prepared SQL has a syntax error. Added `generateSimpleParameterMetadata` configuration property, which when set to `true` will generate metadata reflecting `VARCHAR` for every parameter (the default is `false`, which will cause an exception to be thrown if no parameter metadata for the statement is actually available). (Bug#21267)

- Fixed an issue where `XADataSources` couldn't be bound into JNDI, as the `DataSourceFactory` didn't know how to create instances of them.

Other changes:

- Avoid static synchronized code in JVM class libraries for dealing with default timezones.

- Performance enhancement of initial character set configuration, driver will only send commands required to configure connection character set session variables if the current values on the server do not match what is required.

- Re-worked stored procedure parameter parser to be more robust. Driver no longer requires `BEGIN` in stored procedure definition, but does have requirement that if a stored function begins with a label directly after the "returns" clause, that the label is not a quoted identifier.

- Throw exceptions encountered during timeout to thread calling `Statement.execute*()`, rather than `RuntimeException`.

- Changed cached result set metadata (when using `cacheResultSetMetadata=true`) to be cached per-connection rather than per-statement as previously implemented.

- Reverted back to internal character conversion routines for single-byte character sets, as the ones internal to the JVM are using much more CPU time than our internal implementation.

- When extracting foreign key information from `SHOW CREATE TABLE` in `DatabaseMetaData`, ignore exceptions relating to tables being missing (which could happen for cross-reference or imported-key requests, as the list of tables is generated first, then iterated).

- Fixed some Null Pointer Exceptions (NPEs) when cached metadata was used with `UpdatableResultSets`.

- Take `localSocketAddress` property into account when creating instances of `CommunicationsException` when the underyling exception is a `java.net.BindException`, so that a friendlier error message is given with a little internal diagnostics.

- Fixed cases where `ServerPreparedStatements` weren't using cached metadata when `cacheResultSetMetadata=true` was used.

- Use a `java.util.TreeMap` to map column names to ordinal indexes for `ResultSet.findColumn()` instead of a HashMap. This allows us to have case-insensitive lookups (required by the JDBC specification) without resorting to the many transient object instances needed to support this requirement with a normal `HashMap` with either case-adjusted keys, or case-insensitive keys. (In the worst case scenario for lookups of a 1000 column result set, TreeMaps are about half as fast wall-clock time as a HashMap, however in normal applications their use gives many orders of magnitude reduction in transient object instance creation which pays off later for CPU usage in garbage collection).

- When using cached metadata, skip field-level metadata packets coming from the server, rather than reading them and discarding them without creating `com.mysql.jdbc.Field` instances.

### A.2.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.4 (20 October 2006)

Bugs fixed:

- DBMD.getColumns() does not return expected COLUMN_SIZE for the SET type, now returns length of largest possible set disregarding whitespace or the "," delimitters to be consistent with the ODBC driver. (Bug#22613)

- Added new _ci collations to CharsetMapping - utf8_unicode_ci not working. (Bug#22456)

- Driver was using milliseconds for Statement.setQueryTimeout() when specification says argument is to be in seconds. (Bug#22359)

- Workaround for server crash when calling stored procedures via a server-side prepared statement (driver now detects prepare(stored procedure) and substitutes client-side prepared statement). (Bug#22297)

- Driver issues truncation on write exception when it shouldn't (due to sending big decimal incorrectly to server with server-side prepared statement). (Bug#22290)

- Newlines causing whitespace to span confuse procedure parser when getting parameter metadata for stored procedures. (Bug#22024)

- When using information_schema for metadata, COLUMN_SIZE for getColumns() is not clamped to range of java.lang.Integer as is the case when not using information_schema, thus leading to a truncation exception that isn't present when not using information_schema. (Bug#21544)

- Column names don't match metadata in cases where server doesn't return original column names (column functions) thus breaking compatibility with applications that expect 1-1 mappings between findColumn() and rsmd.getColumnName(), usually manifests itself as "Can't find column ('')" exceptions. (Bug#21379)

- Driver now sends numeric 1 or 0 for client-prepared statement `setBoolean()` calls instead of '1' or '0'.

- Fixed configuration property `jdbcCompliantTruncation` was not being used for reads of result set values.

- DatabaseMetaData correctly reports `true` for `supportsCatalog*()` methods.

- Driver now supports `{call sp}` (without "()" if procedure has no arguments).

### A.2.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.3 (26 July 2006)

Functionality added or changed:

- Added configuration option `noAccessToProcedureBodies` which will cause the driver to create basic parameter metadata for `CallableStatements` when the user does not have access to procedure bodies via `SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE` or selecting from `mysql.proc` instead of throwing an exception. The default value for this option is `false`

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed `Statement.cancel()` causes `NullPointerException` if underlying connection has been closed due to server failure. (Bug#20650)

- If the connection to the server has been closed due to a server failure, then the cleanup process will call `Statement.cancel()`, triggering a `NullPointerException`, even though there is no active connection. (Bug#20650)

### A.2.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.2 (11 July 2006)

Bugs fixed:

- `MysqlXaConnection.recover(int flags)` now allows combinations of `XAResource.TMSTARTRSCAN` and `TMENDRSCAN`. To simulate the “scanning” nature of the interface, we return all prepared XIDs for `TMSTARTRSCAN`, and no new XIDs for calls with `TMNOFLAGS`, or `TMENDRSCAN` when not in combination with `TMSTARTRSCAN`. This change was made for API compliance, as well as integration with IBM WebSphere's transaction manager. (Bug#20242)

- Fixed `MysqlValidConnectionChecker` for JBoss doesn't work with `MySQLXADataSources`. (Bug#20242)

- Added connection/datasource property `pinGlobalTxToPhysicalConnection` (defaults to `false`). When set to `true`, when using `XAConnections`, the driver ensures that operations on a given XID are always routed to the same physical connection. This allows the `XAConnection` to support `XA START ... JOIN` after `XA END` has been called, and is also a workaround for transaction managers that don't maintain thread affinity for a global transaction (most either always maintain thread affinity, or have it as a configuration option). (Bug#20242)

- Better caching of character set converters (per-connection) to remove a bottleneck for multibyte character sets. (Bug#20242)

- Fixed `ConnectionProperties` (and thus some subclasses) are not serializable, even though some J2EE containers expect them to be. (Bug#19169)

- Fixed driver fails on non-ASCII platforms. The driver was assuming that the platform character set would be a superset of MySQL's `latin1` when doing the handshake for authentication, and when reading error messages. We now use Cp1252 for all strings sent to the server during the handshake phase, and a hard-coded mapping of the `language` systtem variable to the character set that is used for error messages. (Bug#18086)

- Fixed can't use `XAConnection` for local transactions when no global transaction is in progress. (Bug#17401)

### A.2.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.1 (Not Released)

Not released due to a packaging error

### A.2.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.0 (22 December 2005)

Bugs fixed:

- Added support for Connector/MXJ integration via url subprotocol `jdbc:mysql:mxj://...`. (Bug#14729)

- Idle timeouts cause `XAConnections` to whine about rolling themselves back. (Bug#14729)

- When fix for Bug#14562 was merged from 3.1.12, added functionality for `CallableStatement`'s parameter metadata to return correct information for `.getParameterClassName()`. (Bug#14729)

- Added service-provider entry to `META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver` for JDBC-4.0 support. (Bug#14729)

- Fuller synchronization of `Connection` to avoid deadlocks when using multithreaded frameworks that multithread a single connection (usually not recommended, but the JDBC spec allows it anyways), part of fix to Bug#14972). (Bug#14729)

- Moved all `SQLException` constructor usage to a factory in `SQLError` (ground-work for JDBC-4.0 `SQLState`-based exception classes). (Bug#14729)

- Removed Java5-specific calls to `BigDecimal` constructor (when result set value is `''`, `(int)0` was being used as an argument indirectly via method return value. This signature doesn't exist prior to Java5.) (Bug#14729)

- Implementation of `Statement.cancel()` and `Statement.setQueryTimeout()`. Both require MySQL-5.0.0 or newer server, require a separate connection to issue the `KILL QUERY` statement, and in the case of `setQueryTimeout()` creates an additional thread to handle the timeout functionality.

  Note: Failures to cancel the statement for `setQueryTimeout()` may manifest themselves as `RuntimeExceptions` rather than failing silently, as there is currently no way to unblock the thread that is executing the query being cancelled due to timeout expiration and have it throw the exception instead. (Bug#14729)

- Return "[VAR]BINARY" for `RSMD.getColumnTypeName()` when that is actually the type, and it can be distinguished (MySQL-4.1 and newer). (Bug#14729)

- Attempt detection of the MySQL type `BINARY` (it's an alias, so this isn't always reliable), and use the `java.sql.Types.BINARY` type mapping for it.

- Added unit tests for `XADatasource`, as well as friendlier exceptions for XA failures compared to the "stock" `XAException` (which has no messages).

- If the connection `useTimezone` is set to `true`, then also respect time zone conversions in escape-processed string literals (for example, `"{ts ...}"` and `"{t ...}"`).

- Don't allow `.setAutoCommit(true)`, or `.commit()` or `.rollback()` on an XA-managed connection as per the JDBC specification.

- `XADataSource` implemented (ported from 3.2 branch which won't be released as a product). Use `com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXADataSource` as your datasource class name in your application server to utilize XA transactions in MySQL-5.0.10 and newer.

- Moved `-bin-g.jar` file into separate `debug` subdirectory to avoid confusion.

- Return original column name for `RSMD.getColumnName()` if the column was aliased, alias name for `.getColumnLabel()` (if aliased), and original table name for `.getTableName()`. Note this only works for MySQL-4.1 and newer, as older servers don't make this information available to clients.

- Setting `useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift=true` (it's not the default) causes the driver to use GMT for all `TIMESTAMP`/`DATETIME` time zones, and the current VM time zone for any other type that refers to time zones. This feature can not be used when `useTimezone=true` to convert between server and client time zones.

- `PreparedStatement.setString()` didn't work correctly when `sql_mode` on server contained `NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES` and no characters that needed escaping were present in the string.

- Add one level of indirection of internal representation of `CallableStatement` parameter metadata to avoid class not found issues on JDK-1.3 for `ParameterMetadata` interface (which doesn't exist prior to JDBC-3.0).

## A.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.x

### A.3.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.15 (Not yet released)

Important change: Due to a number of issues with the use of server-side prepared statements, Connector/J 5.0.5 has disabled their use by default. The disabling of server-side prepared statements does not affect the operation of the connector in any way.

To enable server-side prepared statements you must add the following configuration property to your connector string:

    useServerPrepStmts=true

The default value of this property is `false` (that is, Connector/J does not use server-side prepared statements).

Bugs fixed:

- Specifying `US-ASCII` as the character set in a connection to a MySQL 4.1 or newer server does not map correctly. (Bug#24840)

### A.3.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.14 (10-19-2006)

Bugs fixed:

- Check and store value for continueBatchOnError property in constructor of Statements, rather than when executing batches, so that Connections closed out from underneath statements don't cause NullPointerExceptions when it's required to check this property. (Bug#22290)

- Fixed Bug#18258 - DatabaseMetaData.getTables(), columns() with bad catalog parameter threw exception rather than return empty result set (as required by spec). (Bug#22290)

- Driver now sends numeric 1 or 0 for client-prepared statement setBoolean() calls instead of '1' or '0'. (Bug#22290)

- Fixed bug where driver would not advance to next host if roundRobinLoadBalance=true and the last host in the list is down. (Bug#22290)

- Driver issues truncation on write exception when it shouldn't (due to sending big decimal incorrectly to server with server-side prepared statement). (Bug#22290)

- Fixed bug when calling stored functions, where parameters weren't numbered correctly (first parameter is now the return value, subsequent parameters if specified start at index "2"). (Bug#22290)

- Removed logger autodetection altogether, must now specify logger explicitly if you want to use a logger other than one that logs to STDERR. (Bug#21207)

- DDriver throws NPE when tracing prepared statements that have been closed (in asSQL()). (Bug#21207)

- ResultSet.getSomeInteger() doesn't work for BIT(>1). (Bug#21062)

- Escape of quotes in client-side prepared statements parsing not respected. Patch covers more than bug report, including NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES being set, and stacked quote characters forms of escaping (that is, '' or ""). (Bug#20888)

- Fixed can't pool server-side prepared statements, exception raised when re-using them. (Bug#20687)

- Fixed Updatable result set that contains a BIT column fails when server-side prepared statements are used. (Bug#20485)

- Fixed updatable result set throws ClassCastException when there is row data and moveToInsertRow() is called. (Bug#20479)

- Fixed ResultSet.getShort() for UNSIGNED TINYINT returns incorrect values when using server-side prepared statements. (Bug#20306)

- ReplicationDriver does not always round-robin load balance depending on URL used for slaves list. (Bug#19993)

- Fixed calling toString() on ResultSetMetaData for driver-generated (that is, from DatabaseMetaData method calls, or from getGeneratedKeys()) result sets would raise a NullPointerException. (Bug#19993)

- Connection fails to localhost when using timeout and IPv6 is configured. (Bug#19726)

- ResultSet.getFloatFromString() can't retrieve values near Float.MIN/MAX_VALUE. (Bug#18880)

- Fixed memory leak with profileSQL=true. (Bug#16987)

- Fixed NullPointerException in MysqlDataSourceFactory due to Reference containing RefAddrs with null content. (Bug#16791)

### A.3.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.13 (26 May 2006)

Bugs fixed:

- `Fixed PreparedStatement.setObject(int, Object, int)` doesn't respect scale of BigDecimals. (Bug#19615)

- Fixed `ResultSet.wasNull()` returns incorrect value when extracting native string from server-side prepared statement generated result set. (Bug#19282)

- Fixed invalid classname returned for `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName()` for `BIGINT type`. (Bug#19282)

- Fixed case where driver wasn't reading server status correctly when fetching server-side prepared statement rows, which in some cases could cause warning counts to be off, or multiple result sets to not be read off the wire. (Bug#19282)

- Fixed data truncation and `getWarnings()` only returns last warning in set. (Bug#18740)

- Fixed aliased column names where length of name > 251 are corrupted. (Bug#18554)

- Improved performance of retrieving `BigDecimal`, `Time`, `Timestamp` and `Date` values from server-side prepared statements by creating fewer short-lived instances of `Strings` when the native type is not an exact match for the requested type. (Bug#18496)

- Added performance feature, re-writing of batched executes for `Statement.executeBatch()` (for all DML statements) and `PreparedStatement.executeBatch()` (for INSERTs with VALUE clauses only). Enable by using "rewriteBatchedStatements=true" in your JDBC URL. (Bug#18041)

- Fixed issue where server-side prepared statements don't cause truncation exceptions to be thrown when truncation happens. (Bug#18041)

- Fixed `CallableStatement.registerOutParameter()` not working when some parameters pre-populated. Still waiting for feedback from JDBC experts group to determine what correct parameter count from `getMetaData()` should be, however. (Bug#17898)

- Fixed calling `clearParameters()` on a closed prepared statement causes NPE. (Bug#17587)

- Map "latin1" on MySQL server to CP1252 for MySQL > 4.1.0. (Bug#17587)

- Added additional accessor and mutator methods on ConnectionProperties so that DataSource users can use same naming as regular URL properties. (Bug#17587)

- Fixed `ResultSet.wasNull()` not always reset correctly for booleans when done via conversion for server-side prepared statements. (Bug#17450)

- Fixed `Statement.getGeneratedKeys()` throws `NullPointerException` when no query has been processed. (Bug#17099)

- Fixed updatable result set doesn't return `AUTO_INCREMENT` values for `insertRow()` when multiple column primary keys are used. (the driver was checking for the existence of single-column primary keys and an autoincrement value > 0 instead of a straightforward `isAutoIncrement()` check). (Bug#16841)

- `DBMD.getColumns()` returns wrong type for `BIT`. (Bug#15854)

- `lib-nodist` directory missing from package breaks out-of-box build. (Bug#15676)

- Fixed issue with `ReplicationConnection` incorrectly copying state, doesn't transfer connection context correctly when transitioning between the same read-only states. (Bug#15570)

- No "dos" character set in MySQL > 4.1.0. (Bug#15544)

- `INOUT` parameter does not store `IN` value. (Bug#15464)

- `PreparedStatement.setObject()` serializes `BigInteger` as object, rather than sending as numeric value (and is thus not complementary to `.getObject()` on an `UNSIGNED LONG` type). (Bug#15383)

- Fixed issue where driver was unable to initialize character set mapping tables. Removed reliance on `.properties` files to hold this information, as it turns out to be too problematic to code around class loader hierarchies that change depending on how an application is deployed. Moved information back into the `CharsetMapping` class. (Bug#14938)

- Exception thrown for new decimal type when using updatable result sets. (Bug#14609)

- Driver now aware of fix for `BIT` type metadata that went into MySQL-5.0.21 for server not reporting length consistently . (Bug#13601)

- Added support for Apache Commons logging, use "com.mysql.jdbc.log.CommonsLogger" as the value for the "logger" configuration property. (Bug#13469)

- Fixed driver trying to call methods that don't exist on older and newer versions of Log4j. The fix is not trying to auto-detect presence of log4j, too many different incompatible versions out there in the wild to do this reliably.

  If you relied on autodetection before, you will need to add "logger=com.mysql.jdbc.log.Log4JLogger" to your JDBC URL to enable Log4J usage, or alternatively use the new "CommonsLogger" class to take care of this. (Bug#13469)

- LogFactory now prepends "com.mysql.jdbc.log" to log class name if it can't be found as-specified. This allows you to use "short names" for the built-in log factories, for example "logger=CommonsLogger" instead of "logger=com.mysql.jdbc.log.CommonsLogger". (Bug#13469)

- `ResultSet.getShort()` for `UNSIGNED TINYINT` returned wrong values. (Bug#11874)

### A.3.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.12 (30 November 2005)

Bugs fixed:

- Process escape tokens in `Connection.prepareStatement(...)`. You can disable this behavior by setting the JDBC URL configuration property `processEscapeCodesForPrepStmts` to `false`. (Bug#15141)

- Usage advisor complains about unreferenced columns, even though they've been referenced. (Bug#15065)

- Driver incorrectly closes streams passed as arguments to `PreparedStatements`. Reverts to legacy behavior by setting the JDBC configuration property `autoClosePStmtStreams` to `true` (also included in the 3-0-Compat configuration “bundle”). (Bug#15024)

- Deadlock while closing server-side prepared statements from multiple threads sharing one connection. (Bug#14972)

- Unable to initialize character set mapping tables (due to J2EE classloader differences). (Bug#14938)

- Escape processor replaces quote character in quoted string with string delimiter. (Bug#14909)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()` doesn't return `TABLE_NAME` correctly. (Bug#14815)

- `storesMixedCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false` (Bug#14562)

- `storesLowerCaseIdentifiers()` returns `true` (Bug#14562)

- `storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `false` (Bug#14562)

- `storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true` (Bug#14562)

- If `lower_case_table_names=0` (on server):

  - `storesLowerCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false`

  - `storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `false`

  - `storesMixedCaseIdentifiers()` returns `true`

  - `storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true`

  - `storesUpperCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false`

  - `storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true`

  (Bug#14562)

- `storesUpperCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false` (Bug#14562)

- `storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true` (Bug#14562)

- If `lower_case_table_names=1` (on server):

  - `storesLowerCaseIdentifiers()` returns `true`

  - `storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true`

  - `storesMixedCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false`

  - `storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `false`

  - `storesUpperCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false`

  - `storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true`

  (Bug#14562)

- `storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true` (Bug#14562)

- Fixed `DatabaseMetaData.stores*Identifiers()`:

  - If `lower_case_table_names=0` (on server):

    - `storesLowerCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false`

    - `storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `false`

    - `storesMixedCaseIdentifiers()` returns `true`

    - `storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true`

    - `storesUpperCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false`

    - `storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true`

  - If `lower_case_table_names=1` (on server):

    - `storesLowerCaseIdentifiers()` returns `true`

    - `storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true`

    - `storesMixedCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false`

    - `storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `false`

    - `storesUpperCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false`

    - `storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `true`

  (Bug#14562)

- `storesMixedCaseIdentifiers()` returns `true` (Bug#14562)

- `storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers()` returns `false` (Bug#14562)

- Java type conversion may be incorrect for `MEDIUMINT`. (Bug#14562)

- `storesLowerCaseIdentifiers()` returns `false` (Bug#14562)

- Added configuration property `useGmtMillisForDatetimes` which when set to `true` causes `ResultSet.getDate()`, `.getTimestamp()` to return correct millis-since GMT when `.getTime()` is called on the return value (currently default is `false` for legacy behavior). (Bug#14562)

- Extraneous sleep on `autoReconnect`. (Bug#13775)

- Reconnect during middle of `executeBatch()` should not occur if `autoReconnect` is enabled. (Bug#13255)

- `maxQuerySizeToLog` is not respected. Added logging of bound values for `execute()` phase of server-side prepared statements when `profileSQL=true` as well. (Bug#13048)

- OpenOffice expects `DBMD.supportsIntegrityEnhancementFacility()` to return `true` if foreign keys are supported by the datasource, even though this method also covers support for check constraints, which MySQL doesn't have. Setting the configuration property `overrideSupportsIntegrityEnhancementFacility` to `true` causes the driver to return `true` for this method. (Bug#12975)

- Added `com.mysql.jdbc.testsuite.url.default` system property to set default JDBC url for testsuite (to speed up bug resolution when I'm working in Eclipse). (Bug#12975)

- `logSlowQueries` should give better info. (Bug#12230)

- Don't increase timeout for failover/reconnect. (Bug#6577)

- Fixed client-side prepared statement bug with embedded `?` characters inside quoted identifiers (it was recognized as a placeholder, when it was not).

- Don't allow `executeBatch()` for `CallableStatements` with registered `OUT`/`INOUT` parameters (JDBC compliance).

- Fall back to platform-encoding for `URLDecoder.decode()` when parsing driver URL properties if the platform doesn't have a two-argument version of this method.

### A.3.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.11 (07 October 2005)

Bugs fixed:

- The configuration property `sessionVariables` now allows you to specify variables that start with the “`@`” sign. (Bug#13453)

- URL configuration parameters don't allow “`&`” or “`=`” in their values. The JDBC driver now parses configuration parameters as if they are encoded using the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format as specified by `java.net.URLDecoder` (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/URLDecoder.html).

  If the “`%`” character is present in a configuration property, it must now be represented as `%25`, which is the encoded form of “`%`” when using application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding. (Bug#13453)

- Workaround for Bug#13374: `ResultSet.getStatement()` on closed result set returns `NULL` (as per JDBC 4.0 spec, but not backward-compatible). Set the connection property `retainStatementAfterResultSetClose` to `true` to be able to retrieve a `ResultSet`'s statement after the `ResultSet` has been closed via `.getStatement()` (the default is `false`, to be JDBC-compliant and to reduce the chance that code using JDBC leaks `Statement` instances). (Bug#13277)

- `ResultSetMetaData` from `Statement.getGeneratedKeys()` caused a `NullPointerException` to be thrown whenever a method that required a connection reference was called. (Bug#13277)

- Backport of `VAR[BINARY|CHAR] [BINARY]` types detection from 5.0 branch. (Bug#13277)

- Fixed `NullPointerException` when converting `catalog` parameter in many `DatabaseMetaDataMethods` to `byte[]`s (for the result set) when the parameter is `null`. (`null` isn't technically allowed by the JDBC specification, but we've historically allowed it). (Bug#13277)

- Backport of `Field` class, `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName()`, and `ResultSet.getObject(int)` changes from 5.0 branch to fix behavior surrounding `VARCHAR BINARY`/`VARBINARY` and related types. (Bug#13277)

- Read response in `MysqlIO.sendFileToServer()`, even if the local file can't be opened, otherwise next query issued will fail, because it's reading the response to the empty `LOAD DATA INFILE` packet sent to the server. (Bug#13277)

- When `gatherPerfMetrics` is enabled for servers older than 4.1.0, a `NullPointerException` is thrown from the constructor of `ResultSet` if the query doesn't use any tables. (Bug#13043)

- `java.sql.Types.OTHER` returned for `BINARY` and `VARBINARY` columns when using `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()`. (Bug#12970)

- `ServerPreparedStatement.getBinding()` now checks if the statement is closed before attempting to reference the list of parameter bindings, to avoid throwing a `NullPointerException`. (Bug#12970)

- Tokenizer for `=` in URL properties was causing `sessionVariables=....` to be parameterized incorrectly. (Bug#12753)

- `cp1251` incorrectly mapped to `win1251` for servers newer than 4.0.x. (Bug#12752)

- `getExportedKeys()` (Bug#12541)

- Specifying a catalog works as stated in the API docs. (Bug#12541)

- Specifying `NULL` means that catalog will not be used to filter the results (thus all databases will be searched), unless you've set `nullCatalogMeansCurrent=true` in your JDBC URL properties. (Bug#12541)

- `getIndexInfo()` (Bug#12541)

- `getProcedures()` (and thus indirectly `getProcedureColumns()`) (Bug#12541)

- `getImportedKeys()` (Bug#12541)

- Specifying `""` means “current” catalog, even though this isn't quite JDBC spec compliant, it's there for legacy users. (Bug#12541)

- `getCrossReference()` (Bug#12541)

- Added `Connection.isMasterConnection()` for clients to be able to determine if a multi-host master/slave connection is connected to the first host in the list. (Bug#12541)

- `getColumns()` (Bug#12541)

- Handling of catalog argument in `DatabaseMetaData.getIndexInfo()`, which also means changes to the following methods in `DatabaseMetaData`:

  - `getBestRowIdentifier()`

  - `getColumns()`

  - `getCrossReference()`

  - `getExportedKeys()`

  - `getImportedKeys()`

  - `getIndexInfo()`

  - `getPrimaryKeys()`

  - `getProcedures()` (and thus indirectly `getProcedureColumns()`)

  - `getTables()`

  The `catalog` argument in all of these methods now behaves in the following way:

  - Specifying `NULL` means that catalog will not be used to filter the results (thus all databases will be searched), unless you've set `nullCatalogMeansCurrent=true` in your JDBC URL properties.

  - Specifying `""` means “current” catalog, even though this isn't quite JDBC spec compliant, it's there for legacy users.

  - Specifying a catalog works as stated in the API docs.

  - Made `Connection.clientPrepare()` available from “wrapped” connections in the `jdbc2.optional` package (connections built by `ConnectionPoolDataSource` instances).

  (Bug#12541)

- `getBestRowIdentifier()` (Bug#12541)

- Made `Connection.clientPrepare()` available from “wrapped” connections in the `jdbc2.optional` package (connections built by `ConnectionPoolDataSource` instances). (Bug#12541)

- `getTables()` (Bug#12541)

- `getPrimaryKeys()` (Bug#12541)

- `Connection.prepareCall()` is database name case-sensitive (on Windows systems). (Bug#12417)

- `explainSlowQueries` hangs with server-side prepared statements. (Bug#12229)

- Properties shared between master and slave with replication connection. (Bug#12218)

- Geometry types not handled with server-side prepared statements. (Bug#12104)

- `maxPerformance.properties` mis-spells “elideSetAutoCommits”. (Bug#11976)

- `ReplicationConnection` won't switch to slave, throws “Catalog can't be null” exception. (Bug#11879)

- `Pstmt.setObject(...., Types.BOOLEAN)` throws exception. (Bug#11798)

- Escape tokenizer doesn't respect stacked single quotes for escapes. (Bug#11797)

- `GEOMETRY` type not recognized when using server-side prepared statements. (Bug#11797)

- Foreign key information that is quoted is parsed incorrectly when `DatabaseMetaData` methods use that information. (Bug#11781)

- The `sendBlobChunkSize` property is now clamped to `max_allowed_packet` with consideration of stream buffer size and packet headers to avoid `PacketTooBigExceptions` when `max_allowed_packet` is similar in size to the default `sendBlobChunkSize` which is 1M. (Bug#11781)

- `CallableStatement.clearParameters()` now clears resources associated with `INOUT`/`OUTPUT` parameters as well as `INPUT` parameters. (Bug#11781)

- Fixed regression caused by fix for Bug#11552 that caused driver to return incorrect values for unsigned integers when those integers where within the range of the positive signed type. (Bug#11663)

- Moved source code to Subversion repository. (Bug#11663)

- Incorrect generation of testcase scripts for server-side prepared statements. (Bug#11663)

- Fixed statements generated for testcases missing `;` for “plain” statements. (Bug#11629)

- Spurious `!` on console when character encoding is `utf8`. (Bug#11629)

- `StringUtils.getBytes()` doesn't work when using multi-byte character encodings and a length in characters is specified. (Bug#11614)

- `DBMD.storesLower/Mixed/UpperIdentifiers()` reports incorrect values for servers deployed on Windows. (Bug#11575)

- Reworked `Field` class, `*Buffer`, and `MysqlIO` to be aware of field lengths > `Integer.MAX_VALUE`. (Bug#11498)

- Escape processor didn't honor strings demarcated with double quotes. (Bug#11498)

- Updated `DBMD.supportsCorrelatedQueries()` to return `true` for versions > 4.1, `supportsGroupByUnrelated()` to return `true` and `getResultSetHoldability()` to return `HOLD_CURSORS_OVER_COMMIT`. (Bug#11498)

- Lifted restriction of changing streaming parameters with server-side prepared statements. As long as `all` streaming parameters were set before execution, `.clearParameters()` does not have to be called. (due to limitation of client/server protocol, prepared statements can not reset individual stream data on the server side). (Bug#11498)

- `ResultSet.moveToCurrentRow()` fails to work when preceded by a call to `ResultSet.moveToInsertRow()`. (Bug#11190)

- `VARBINARY` data corrupted when using server-side prepared statements and `.setBytes()`. (Bug#11115)

- `Statement.getWarnings()` fails with NPE if statement has been closed. (Bug#10630)

- Only get `char[]` from SQL in `PreparedStatement.ParseInfo()` when needed. (Bug#10630)

### A.3.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.10 (23 June 2005)

Bugs fixed:

- Initial implemention of `ParameterMetadata` for `PreparedStatement.getParameterMetadata()`. Only works fully for `CallableStatements`, as current server-side prepared statements return every parameter as a `VARCHAR` type.

- Fixed connecting without a database specified raised an exception in `MysqlIO.changeDatabaseTo()`.

### A.3.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.9 (22 June 2005)

Bugs fixed:

- Production package doesn't include JBoss integration classes. (Bug#11411)

- Removed nonsensical “costly type conversion” warnings when using usage advisor. (Bug#11411)

- Fixed `PreparedStatement.setClob()` not accepting `null` as a parameter. (Bug#11360)

- Connector/J dumping query into `SQLException` twice. (Bug#11360)

- `autoReconnect` ping causes exception on connection startup. (Bug#11259)

- `Connection.setCatalog()` is now aware of the `useLocalSessionState` configuration property, which when set to `true` will prevent the driver from sending `USE ...` to the server if the requested catalog is the same as the current catalog. (Bug#11115)

- `3-0-Compat` — Compatibility with Connector/J 3.0.x functionality (Bug#11115)

- `maxPerformance` — maximum performance without being reckless (Bug#11115)

- `solarisMaxPerformance` — maximum performance for Solaris, avoids syscalls where it can (Bug#11115)

- Added `maintainTimeStats` configuration property (defaults to `true`), which tells the driver whether or not to keep track of the last query time and the last successful packet sent to the server's time. If set to `false`, removes two syscalls per query. (Bug#11115)

- `VARBINARY` data corrupted when using server-side prepared statements and `ResultSet.getBytes()`. (Bug#11115)

- Added the following configuration bundles, use one or many via the `useConfigs` configuration property:

  - `maxPerformance` — maximum performance without being reckless

  - `solarisMaxPerformance` — maximum performance for Solaris, avoids syscalls where it can

  - `3-0-Compat` — Compatibility with Connector/J 3.0.x functionality

  (Bug#11115)

- Try to handle `OutOfMemoryErrors` more gracefully. Although not much can be done, they will in most cases close the connection they happened on so that further operations don't run into a connection in some unknown state. When an OOM has happened, any further operations on the connection will fail with a “Connection closed” exception that will also list the OOM exception as the reason for the implicit connection close event. (Bug#10850)

- Setting `cachePrepStmts=true` now causes the `Connection` to also cache the check the driver performs to determine if a prepared statement can be server-side or not, as well as caches server-side prepared statements for the lifetime of a connection. As before, the `prepStmtCacheSize` parameter controls the size of these caches. (Bug#10850)

- Don't send `COM_RESET_STMT` for each execution of a server-side prepared statement if it isn't required. (Bug#10850)

- 0-length streams not sent to server when using server-side prepared statements. (Bug#10850)

- Driver detects if you're running MySQL-5.0.7 or later, and does not scan for `LIMIT ?[,?]` in statements being prepared, as the server supports those types of queries now. (Bug#10850)

- Reorganized directory layout. Sources now are in `src` folder. Don't pollute parent directory when building, now output goes to `./build`, distribution goes to `./dist`. (Bug#10496)

- Added support/bug hunting feature that generates `.sql` test scripts to `STDERR` when `autoGenerateTestcaseScript` is set to `true`. (Bug#10496)

- `SQLException` is thrown when using property `characterSetResults` with `cp932` or `eucjpms`. (Bug#10496)

- The datatype returned for `TINYINT(1)` columns when `tinyInt1isBit=true` (the default) can be switched between `Types.BOOLEAN` and `Types.BIT` using the new configuration property `transformedBitIsBoolean`, which defaults to `false`. If set to `false` (the default), `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()` and `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnType()` will return `Types.BOOLEAN` for `TINYINT(1)` columns. If `true`, `Types.BOOLEAN` will be returned instead. Regardless of this configuration property, if `tinyInt1isBit` is enabled, columns with the type `TINYINT(1)` will be returned as `java.lang.Boolean` instances from `ResultSet.getObject(...)`, and `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName()` will return `java.lang.Boolean`. (Bug#10485)

- `SQLException` thrown when retrieving `YEAR(2)` with `ResultSet.getString()`. The driver will now always treat `YEAR` types as `java.sql.Dates` and return the correct values for `getString()`. Alternatively, the `yearIsDateType` connection property can be set to `false` and the values will be treated as `SHORT`s. (Bug#10485)

- Driver doesn't support `{?=CALL(...)}` for calling stored functions. This involved adding support for function retrieval to `DatabaseMetaData.getProcedures()` and `getProcedureColumns()` as well. (Bug#10310)

- Unsigned `SMALLINT` treated as signed for `ResultSet.getInt()`, fixed all cases for `UNSIGNED` integer values and server-side prepared statements, as well as `ResultSet.getObject()` for `UNSIGNED TINYINT`. (Bug#10156)

- Made `ServerPreparedStatement.asSql()` work correctly so auto-explain functionality would work with server-side prepared statements. (Bug#10155)

- Double quotes not recognized when parsing client-side prepared statements. (Bug#10155)

- Made JDBC2-compliant wrappers public in order to allow access to vendor extensions. (Bug#10155)

- `DatabaseMetaData.supportsMultipleOpenResults()` now returns `true`. The driver has supported this for some time, DBMD just missed that fact. (Bug#10155)

- Cleaned up logging of profiler events, moved code to dump a profiler event as a string to `com.mysql.jdbc.log.LogUtils` so that third parties can use it. (Bug#10155)

- Made `enableStreamingResults()` visible on `com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.StatementWrapper`. (Bug#10155)

- Actually write manifest file to correct place so it ends up in the binary jar file. (Bug#10144)

- Added `createDatabaseIfNotExist` property (default is `false`), which will cause the driver to ask the server to create the database specified in the URL if it doesn't exist. You must have the appropriate privileges for database creation for this to work. (Bug#10144)

- Memory leak in `ServerPreparedStatement` if `serverPrepare()` fails. (Bug#10144)

- `com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.ParseInfo` does unnecessary call to `toCharArray()`. (Bug#9064)

- Driver now correctly uses CP932 if available on the server for Windows-31J, CP932 and MS932 java encoding names, otherwise it resorts to SJIS, which is only a close approximation. Currently only MySQL-5.0.3 and newer (and MySQL-4.1.12 or .13, depending on when the character set gets backported) can reliably support any variant of CP932.

- Overhaul of character set configuration, everything now lives in a properties file.

### A.3.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.8 (14 April 2005)

Bugs fixed:

- Should accept `null` for catalog (meaning use current) in DBMD methods, even though it's not JDBC-compliant for legacy's sake. Disable by setting connection property `nullCatalogMeansCurrent` to `false` (which will be the default value in C/J 3.2.x). (Bug#9917)

- Fixed driver not returning `true` for `-1` when `ResultSet.getBoolean()` was called on result sets returned from server-side prepared statements. (Bug#9778)

- Added a `Manifest.MF` file with implementation information to the `.jar` file. (Bug#9778)

- More tests in `Field.isOpaqueBinary()` to distinguish opaque binary (that is, fields with type `CHAR(n)` and `CHARACTER SET BINARY`) from output of various scalar and aggregate functions that return strings. (Bug#9778)

- `DBMD.getTables()` shouldn't return tables if views are asked for, even if the database version doesn't support views. (Bug#9778)

- Should accept `null` for name patterns in DBMD (meaning “`%`”), even though it isn't JDBC compliant, for legacy's sake. Disable by setting connection property `nullNamePatternMatchesAll` to `false` (which will be the default value in C/J 3.2.x). (Bug#9769)

- Then fallback to our `STDERR` logging. (Bug#9704)

- The performance metrics feature now gathers information about number of tables referenced in a SELECT. (Bug#9704)

- The logging system is now automatically configured. If the value has been set by the user, via the URL property `logger` or the system property `com.mysql.jdbc.logger`, then use that, otherwise, autodetect it using the following steps:

  1. Log4j, if it's available,

  2. Then JDK1.4 logging,

  3. Then fallback to our `STDERR` logging.

  (Bug#9704)

- Then JDK1.4 logging, (Bug#9704)

- Log4j, if it's available, (Bug#9704)

- `Statement.getMoreResults()` could throw NPE when existing result set was `.close()`d. (Bug#9704)

- Stored procedures with `DECIMAL` parameters with storage specifications that contained “`,`” in them would fail. (Bug#9682)

- `PreparedStatement.setObject(int, Object, int type, int scale)` now uses scale value for `BigDecimal` instances. (Bug#9682)

- Added support for the c3p0 connection pool's (http://c3p0.sf.net/) validation/connection checker interface which uses the lightweight `COM_PING` call to the server if available. To use it, configure your c3p0 connection pool's `connectionTesterClassName` property to use `com.mysql.jdbc.integration.c3p0.MysqlConnectionTester`. (Bug#9320)

- `PreparedStatement.getMetaData()` inserts blank row in database under certain conditions when not using server-side prepared statements. (Bug#9320)

- Better detection of `LIMIT` inside/outside of quoted strings so that the driver can more correctly determine whether a prepared statement can be prepared on the server or not. (Bug#9320)

- `Connection.canHandleAsPreparedStatement()` now makes “best effort” to distinguish `LIMIT` clauses with placeholders in them from ones without in order to have fewer false positives when generating work-arounds for statements the server cannot currently handle as server-side prepared statements. (Bug#9320)

- Fixed `build.xml` to not compile `log4j` logging if `log4j` not available. (Bug#9320)

- Added finalizers to `ResultSet` and `Statement` implementations to be JDBC spec-compliant, which requires that if not explicitly closed, these resources should be closed upon garbage collection. (Bug#9319)

- Stored procedures with same name in different databases confuse the driver when it tries to determine parameter counts/types. (Bug#9319)

- A continuation of Bug#8868, where functions used in queries that should return non-string types when resolved by temporary tables suddenly become opaque binary strings (work-around for server limitation). Also fixed fields with type of `CHAR(n) CHARACTER SET BINARY` to return correct/matching classes for `RSMD.getColumnClassName()` and `ResultSet.getObject()`. (Bug#9236)

- Cannot use `UTF-8` for characterSetResults configuration property. (Bug#9206)

- `PreparedStatement.addBatch()` doesn't work with server-side prepared statements and streaming `BINARY` data. (Bug#9040)

- `ServerPreparedStatements` now correctly “stream” `BLOB`/`CLOB` data to the server. You can configure the threshold chunk size using the JDBC URL property `blobSendChunkSize` (the default is 1MB). (Bug#8868)

- `DATE_FORMAT()` queries returned as `BLOB`s from `getObject()`. (Bug#8868)

- Server-side session variables can be preset at connection time by passing them as a comma-delimited list for the connection property `sessionVariables`. (Bug#8868)

- `BlobFromLocator` now uses correct identifier quoting when generating prepared statements. (Bug#8868)

- Fixed regression in `ping()` for users using `autoReconnect=true`. (Bug#8868)

- Check for empty strings (`''`) when converting `CHAR`/`VARCHAR` column data to numbers, throw exception if `emptyStringsConvertToZero` configuration property is set to `false` (for backward-compatibility with 3.0, it is now set to `true` by default, but will most likely default to `false` in 3.2). (Bug#8803)

- `DATA_TYPE` column from `DBMD.getBestRowIdentifier()` causes `ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException` when accessed (and in fact, didn't return any value). (Bug#8803)

- `DBMD.supportsMixedCase*Identifiers()` returns wrong value on servers running on case-sensitive filesystems. (Bug#8800)

- `DBMD.supportsResultSetConcurrency()` not returning `true` for forward-only/read-only result sets (we obviously support this). (Bug#8792)

- Fixed `ResultSet.getTime()` on a `NULL` value for server-side prepared statements throws NPE.

- Made `Connection.ping()` a public method.

- Added support for new precision-math `DECIMAL` type in MySQL 5.0.3 and up.

- Fixed `DatabaseMetaData.getTables()` returning views when they were not asked for as one of the requested table types.

### A.3.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.7 (18 February 2005)

Bugs fixed:

- `PreparedStatements` not creating streaming result sets. (Bug#8487)

- Don't pass `NULL` to `String.valueOf()` in `ResultSet.getNativeConvertToString()`, as it stringifies it (that is, returns `null`), which is not correct for the method in question. (Bug#8487)

- Fixed NPE in `ResultSet.realClose()` when using usage advisor and result set was already closed. (Bug#8428)

- `ResultSet.getString()` doesn't maintain format stored on server, bug fix only enabled when `noDatetimeStringSync` property is set to `true` (the default is `false`). (Bug#8428)

- 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 determine 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. (Bug#8424)

- 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. (Bug#8424)

- Added `enableStreamingResults()` to `Statement` for connection pool implementations that check `Statement.setFetchSize()` for specification-compliant values. Call `Statement.setFetchSize(>=0)` to disable the streaming results for that statement. (Bug#8424)

- `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. (Bug#8424)

- Fixed synchronization issue with `ServerPreparedStatement.serverPrepare()` that could cause deadlocks/crashes if connection was shared between threads. (Bug#8096)

- Emulated locators corrupt binary data when using server-side prepared statements. (Bug#8096)

- Infinite recursion when “falling back” to master in failover configuration. (Bug#7952)

- 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. (Bug#7952)

- Removed `dontUnpackBinaryResults` functionality, the driver now always stores results from server-side prepared statements as is from the server and unpacks them on demand. (Bug#7952)

- Fixed duplicated code in `configureClientCharset()` that prevented `useOldUTF8Behavior=true` from working properly. (Bug#7952)

- Added `holdResultsOpenOverStatementClose` property (default is `false`), that keeps result sets open over statement.close() or new execution on same statement (suggested by Kevin Burton). (Bug#7715)

- Detect new `sql_mode` variable in string form (it used to be integer) and adjust quoting method for strings appropriately. (Bug#7715)

- Timestamps converted incorrectly to strings with server-side prepared statements and updatable result sets. (Bug#7715)

- Timestamp key column data needed `_binary` stripped for `UpdatableResultSet.refreshRow()`. (Bug#7686)

- Choose correct “direction” to apply time adjustments when both client and server are in GMT time zone when using `ResultSet.get(..., cal)` and `PreparedStatement.set(...., cal)`. (Bug#4718)

- Remove `_binary` introducer from parameters used as in/out parameters in `CallableStatement`. (Bug#4718)

- Always return `byte[]`s for output parameters registered as `*BINARY`. (Bug#4718)

- 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. You can disable this by passing `emulateUnsupportedPstmts=false` in your JDBC URL. (Bug#4718)

- Added `dontTrackOpenResources` option (default is `false`, to be JDBC compliant), which helps with memory use for non-well-behaved apps (that is, applications that don't close `Statement` objects when they should). (Bug#4718)

- Send correct value for “boolean” `true` to server for `PreparedStatement.setObject(n, "true", Types.BIT)`. (Bug#4718)

- Fixed bug with Connection not caching statements from `prepareStatement()` when the statement wasn't a server-side prepared statement. (Bug#4718)

### A.3.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.6 (23 December 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- `DBMD.getProcedures()` doesn't respect catalog parameter. (Bug#7026)

- 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.

### A.3.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.5 (02 December 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- Use 1MB packet for sending file for `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE` if that is < `max_allowed_packet` on server. (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). (Bug#6537)

- Use `DatabaseMetaData.getIdentifierQuoteString()` when building DBMD queries. (Bug#6537)

- Use our own implementation of buffered input streams to get around blocking behavior of `java.io.BufferedInputStream`. Disable this with `useReadAheadInput=false`. (Bug#6399)

- Make auto-deserialization of `java.lang.Objects` stored in `BLOB` columns configurable via `autoDeserialize` property (defaults to `false`). (Bug#6399)

- `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnDisplaySize()` returns incorrect values for multi-byte charsets. (Bug#6399)

- Re-work `Field.isOpaqueBinary()` to detect `CHAR(`n`) CHARACTER SET BINARY` to support fixed-length binary fields for `ResultSet.getObject()`. (Bug#6399)

- 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()`. (Bug#6348)

- Removed unwanted 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. (Bug#6225)

- `ServerSidePreparedStatement` allocating short-lived objects unnecessarily. (Bug#6225)

- Use null-safe-equals for key comparisons in updatable result sets. (Bug#6225)

- Fixed too-early creation of `StringBuffer` in `EscapeProcessor.escapeSQL()`, also return `String` when escaping not needed (to avoid unnecessary object allocations). Found while profiling for Bug#6359. (Bug#6225)

- `UNSIGNED BIGINT` unpacked incorrectly from server-side prepared statement result sets. (Bug#5729)

- 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. (Bug#5706)

- Don't throw exceptions for `Connection.releaseSavepoint()`. (Bug#5706)

- Inefficient detection of pre-existing string instances in `ResultSet.getNativeString()`. (Bug#5706)

- Use a per-session `Calendar` instance by default when decoding dates from `ServerPreparedStatements` (set to old, less performant behavior by setting property `dynamicCalendars=true`). (Bug#5706)

- 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()”. (Bug#5235)

- Handle case when string representation of timestamp contains trailing “`.`” with no numbers following it. (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. (Bug#5235)

- Fix comparisons made between string constants and dynamic strings that are converted with either `toUpperCase()` or `toLowerCase()` 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.

### A.3.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.4 (04 September 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- 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`. (Bug#5032)

- Added three ways to deal with all-zero datetimes when reading them from a `ResultSet`: `exception` (the default), which throws an `SQLException` with an 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'`. (Bug#5032)

- The driver is more strict about truncation of numerics on `ResultSet.get*()`, and will throw an `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). (Bug#5032)

- 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`. (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 obscured test in `getObject()` for “pseudo” bit type). (Bug#5032)

- 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. (Bug#5032)

- `ServerPreparedStatements` dealing with return of `DECIMAL` type don't work. (Bug#5012)

- Track packet sequence numbers if `enablePacketDebug=true`, and throw an exception if packets received out-of-order. (Bug#4689)

- `ResultSet.wasNull()` does not work for primatives if a previous `null` was returned. (Bug#4689)

- Optimized integer number parsing, enable “old” slower integer parsing using JDK classes via `useFastIntParsing=false` property. (Bug#4642)

- 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. (Bug#4642)

- `ServerPreparedStatement.execute*()` sometimes threw `ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException` when unpacking field metadata. (Bug#4642)

- Connector/J 3.1.3 beta does not handle integers correctly (caused by changes to support unsigned reads in `Buffer.readInt()` -> `Buffer.readShort()`). (Bug#4510)

- Added support in `DatabaseMetaData.getTables()` and `getTableTypes()` for views, which are now available in MySQL server 5.0.x. (Bug#4510)

- `ResultSet.getObject()` returns wrong type for strings when using prepared statements. (Bug#4482)

- Calling `MysqlPooledConnection.close()` twice (even though an application error), caused NPE. Fixed. (Bug#4482)

### A.3.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.3 (07 July 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- Support new time zone variables in MySQL-4.1.3 when `useTimezone=true`. (Bug#4311)

- Error in retrieval of `mediumint` column with prepared statements and binary protocol. (Bug#4311)

- 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`. (Bug#4311)

- Externalized more messages (on-going effort). (Bug#4119)

- Null bitmask sent for server-side prepared statements was incorrect. (Bug#4119)

- 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). (Bug#4119)

- Added packet debuging code (see the `enablePacketDebug` property documentation). (Bug#4119)

- Use SQL Standard SQL states by default, unless `useSqlStateCodes` property is set to `false`. (Bug#4119)

- Mangle output parameter names for `CallableStatements` so they will not clash with user variable names.

- Added support for `INOUT` parameters in `CallableStatements`.

### A.3.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.2 (09 June 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- 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). (Bug#3804)

- `getWarnings()` returns `SQLWarning` instead of `DataTruncation`. (Bug#3804)

- `getProcedureColumns()` doesn't work with wildcards for procedure name. (Bug#3540)

- `getProcedures()` does not return any procedures in result set. (Bug#3539)

- Fixed `DatabaseMetaData.getProcedures()` when run on MySQL-5.0.0 (output of `SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS` changed between 5.0.0 and 5.0.1. (Bug#3520)

- Added `connectionCollation` property to cause driver to issue `set collation_connection=...` query on connection init if default collation for given charset is not appropriate. (Bug#3520)

- `DBMD.getSQLStateType()` returns incorrect value. (Bug#3520)

- Correctly map output parameters to position given in `prepareCall()` versus. order implied during `registerOutParameter()`. (Bug#3146)

- Cleaned up detection of server properties. (Bug#3146)

- Correctly detect initial character set for servers >= 4.1.0. (Bug#3146)

- Support placeholder for parameter metadata for server >= 4.1.2. (Bug#3146)

- Added `gatherPerformanceMetrics` property, along with properties to control when/where this info gets logged (see docs for more info).

- Fixed case when no parameters could cause a `NullPointerException` in `CallableStatement.setOutputParameters()`.

- Enabled callable statement caching via `cacheCallableStmts` property.

- 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 `logSlowQueries` property, along with `slowQueriesThresholdMillis` property to control when a query should be considered “slow.”

- Removed wrapping of exceptions in `MysqlIO.changeUser()`.

- Fixed stored procedure parameter parsing info when size was specified for a parameter (for example, `char()`, `varchar()`).

- `ServerPreparedStatements` weren't actually de-allocating server-side resources when `.close()` was called.

- 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.

### A.3.15. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.1 (14 February 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- Use DocBook version of docs for shipped versions of drivers. (Bug#2671)

- `NULL` fields were not being encoded correctly in all cases in server-side prepared statements. (Bug#2671)

- Fixed rare buffer underflow when writing numbers into buffers for sending prepared statement execution requests. (Bug#2671)

- Fixed `ConnectionProperties` that weren't properly exposed via accessors, cleaned up `ConnectionProperties` code. (Bug#2623)

- Class-cast exception when using scrolling result sets and server-side prepared statements. (Bug#2623)

- Merged unbuffered input code from 3.0. (Bug#2623)

- Enabled streaming of result sets from server-side prepared statements. (Bug#2606)

- Server-side prepared statements were not returning datatype `YEAR` correctly. (Bug#2606)

- Fixed charset conversion issue in `getTables()`. (Bug#2502)

- Implemented multiple result sets returned from a statement or stored procedure. (Bug#2502)

- Implemented `Connection.prepareCall()`, and `DatabaseMetaData`. `getProcedures()` and `getProcedureColumns()`. (Bug#2359)

- Merged prepared statement caching, and `.getMetaData()` support from 3.0 branch. (Bug#2359)

- Fixed off-by-1900 error in some cases for years in `TimeUtil.fastDate`/`TimeCreate()` when unpacking results from server-side prepared statements. (Bug#2359)

- Reset `long binary` parameters in `ServerPreparedStatement` when `clearParameters()` is called, by sending `COM_RESET_STMT` to the server. (Bug#2359)

- `NULL` values for numeric types in binary encoded result sets causing `NullPointerExceptions`. (Bug#2359)

- Display where/why a connection was implicitly closed (to aid debugging). (Bug#1673)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()` is not returning correct column ordinal info for non-`'%'` column name patterns. (Bug#1673)

- Fixed `NullPointerException` in `ServerPreparedStatement.setTimestamp()`, as well as year and month descrepencies in `ServerPreparedStatement.setTimestamp()`, `setDate()`. (Bug#1673)

- Added ability to have multiple database/JVM targets for compliance and regression/unit tests in `build.xml`. (Bug#1673)

- Fixed sending of queries larger than 16M. (Bug#1673)

- Merged fix of datatype mapping from MySQL type `FLOAT` to `java.sql.Types.REAL` from 3.0 branch. (Bug#1673)

- Fixed NPE and year/month bad conversions when accessing some datetime functionality in `ServerPreparedStatements` and their resultant result sets. (Bug#1673)

- Added named and indexed input/output parameter support to `CallableStatement`. MySQL-5.0.x or newer. (Bug#1673)

- `CommunicationsException` implemented, that tries to determine why communications was lost with a server, and displays possible reasons when `.getMessage()` is called. (Bug#1673)

- Detect collation of column for `RSMD.isCaseSensitive()`. (Bug#1673)

- Optimized `Buffer.readLenByteArray()` to return shared empty byte array when length is 0.

- Fix support for table aliases when checking for all primary keys in `UpdatableResultSet`.

- Unpack “unknown” data types from server prepared statements as `Strings`.

- Implemented `Statement.getWarnings()` for MySQL-4.1 and newer (using `SHOW WARNINGS`).

- Ensure that warnings are cleared before executing queries on prepared statements, as-per JDBC spec (now that we support warnings).

- Correctly initialize datasource properties from JNDI Refs, including explicitly specified URLs.

- Implemented long data (Blobs, Clobs, InputStreams, Readers) for server prepared statements.

- Deal with 0-length tokens in `EscapeProcessor` (caused by callable statement escape syntax).

- `DatabaseMetaData` now reports `supportsStoredProcedures()` for MySQL versions >= 5.0.0

- Support for `mysql_change_user()`. See the `changeUser()` method in `com.mysql.jdbc.Connection`.

- Removed `useFastDates` connection property.

- Support for NIO. Use `useNIO=true` on platforms that support NIO.

- Check for closed connection on delete/update/insert row operations in `UpdatableResultSet`.

- Support for transaction savepoints (MySQL >= 4.0.14 or 4.1.1).

- Support “old” `profileSql` capitalization in `ConnectionProperties`. This property is deprecated, you should use `profileSQL` if possible.

- Fixed character encoding issues when converting bytes to ASCII when MySQL doesn't provide the character set, and the JVM is set to a multi-byte encoding (usually affecting retrieval of numeric values).

- Centralized setting of result set type and concurrency.

- Fixed bug with `UpdatableResultSets` not using client-side prepared statements.

- Default result set type changed to `TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY` (JDBC compliance).

- Fixed `IllegalAccessError` to `Calendar.getTimeInMillis()` in `DateTimeValue` (for JDK < 1.4).

- Allow contents of `PreparedStatement.setBlob()` to be retained between calls to `.execute*()`.

- Fixed stack overflow in `Connection.prepareCall()` (bad merge).

- Refactored how connection properties are set and exposed as `DriverPropertyInfo` as well as `Connection` and `DataSource` properties.

- 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.

### A.3.16. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.0 (18 February 2003)

Bugs fixed:

- 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.

- Added `requireSSL` property.

- Track open `Statements`, close all when `Connection.close()` is called (JDBC compliance).

## A.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.x

### A.4.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.17 (23 June 2005)

Bugs fixed:

- Workaround for server Bug#9098: Default values of `CURRENT_*` for `DATE`, `TIME`, `DATETIME`, and `TIMESTAMP` columns can't be distinguished from `string` values, so `UpdatableResultSet.moveToInsertRow()` generates bad SQL for inserting default values. (Bug#8812)

- `NON_UNIQUE` column from `DBMD.getIndexInfo()` returned inverted value. (Bug#8812)

- `EUCKR` charset is sent as `SET NAMES euc_kr` which MySQL-4.1 and newer doesn't understand. (Bug#8629)

- Added support for the `EUC_JP_Solaris` character encoding, which maps to a MySQL encoding of `eucjpms` (backported from 3.1 branch). This only works on servers that support `eucjpms`, namely 5.0.3 or later. (Bug#8629)

- Use hex escapes for `PreparedStatement.setBytes()` for double-byte charsets including “aliases” `Windows-31J`, `CP934`, `MS932`. (Bug#8629)

- `DatabaseMetaData.supportsSelectForUpdate()` returns correct value based on server version. (Bug#8629)

- Which requires hex escaping of binary data when using multi-byte charsets with prepared statements. (Bug#8064)

- Fixed duplicated code in `configureClientCharset()` that prevented `useOldUTF8Behavior=true` from working properly. (Bug#7952)

- 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). (Bug#7686)

- Timestamp key column data needed `_binary` stripped for `UpdatableResultSet.refreshRow()`. (Bug#7686)

- `MS932`, `SHIFT_JIS`, and `Windows_31J` not recognized as aliases for `sjis`. (Bug#7607)

- Handle streaming result sets with more than 2 billion rows properly by fixing wraparound of row number counter. (Bug#7601)

- `PreparedStatement.fixDecimalExponent()` adding extra `+`, making number unparseable by MySQL server. (Bug#7601)

- Escape sequence {fn convert(..., type)} now supports ODBC-style types that are prepended by `SQL_`. (Bug#7601)

- Statements created from a pooled connection were returning physical connection instead of logical connection when `getConnection()` was called. (Bug#7316)

- Support new protocol type `MYSQL_TYPE_VARCHAR`. (Bug#7081)

- Added `useOldUTF8Behavior`' 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. (Bug#7081)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getIndexInfo()` ignored `unique` parameter. (Bug#7081)

- `PreparedStatement.fixDecimalExponent()` adding extra `+`, making number unparseable by MySQL server. (Bug#7061)

- `PreparedStatements` don't encode Big5 (and other multi-byte) character sets correctly in static SQL strings. (Bug#7033)

- Connections starting up failed-over (due to down master) never retry master. (Bug#6966)

- Adding `CP943` to aliases for `sjis`. (Bug#6549, Bug#7607)

- `Timestamp`/`Time` conversion goes in the wrong “direction” when `useTimeZone=true` and server time zone differs from client time zone. (Bug#5874)

### A.4.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.16 (15 November 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- Made `TINYINT(1)` -> `BIT`/`Boolean` conversion configurable via `tinyInt1isBit` property (default `true` to be JDBC compliant out of the box). (Bug#5664)

- Off-by-one bug in `Buffer.readString(`string`)`. (Bug#5664)

- `ResultSet.updateByte()` when on insert row throws `ArrayOutOfBoundsException`. (Bug#5664)

- Fixed regression where `useUnbufferedInput` was defaulting to `false`. (Bug#5664)

- `ResultSet.getTimestamp()` on a column with `TIME` in it fails. (Bug#5664)

- Fixed `DatabaseMetaData.getTypes()` returning incorrect (this is, non-negative) scale for the `NUMERIC` type. (Bug#5664)

- Only set `character_set_results` during connection establishment if server version >= 4.1.1. (Bug#5664)

- 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.

- Re-issue character set configuration commands when re-using pooled connections and/or `Connection.changeUser()` when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer.

### A.4.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.15 (04 September 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- `ResultSet.getMetaData()` should not return incorrectly initialized metadata if the result set has been closed, but should instead throw an `SQLException`. Also fixed for `getRow()` and `getWarnings()` and traversal methods by calling `checkClosed()` before operating on instance-level fields that are nullified during `.close()`. (Bug#5069)

- Use `_binary` introducer for `PreparedStatement.setBytes()` and `set*Stream()` when connected to MySQL-4.1.x or newer to avoid misinterpretation during character conversion. (Bug#5069)

- Parse new time zone variables from 4.1.x servers. (Bug#5069)

- `ResultSet` should release `Field[]` instance in `.close()`. (Bug#5022)

- `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). (Bug#4880)

- “Production” is now “GA” (General Availability) in naming scheme of distributions. (Bug#4860, Bug#4138)

- `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. (Bug#4860, Bug#4138)

- Calling `.close()` twice on a `PooledConnection` causes NPE. (Bug#4808)

- `DOUBLE` mapped twice in `DBMD.getTypeInfo()`. (Bug#4742)

- Added FLOSS license exemption. (Bug#4742)

- Removed redundant calls to `checkRowPos()` in `ResultSet`. (Bug#4334)

- Failover for `autoReconnect` not using port numbers for any hosts, and not retrying all hosts.

  ### Warning

  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.

  (Bug#4334)

- 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()`. (Bug#4334)

- `StringUtils.escapeEasternUnicodeByteStream` was still broken for GBK. (Bug#4010)

### A.4.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.14 (28 May 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed URL parsing error.

### A.4.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.13 (27 May 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- `No Database Selected` when using `MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource`. (Bug#3920)

- `PreparedStatement.getGeneratedKeys()` method returns only 1 result for batched insertions. (Bug#3873)

- Using a `MySQLDatasource` without server name fails. (Bug#3848)

### A.4.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.12 (18 May 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- Inconsistent reporting of data type. The server still doesn't return all types for *BLOBs *TEXT correctly, so the driver won't return those correctly. (Bug#3570)

- `UpdatableResultSet` not picking up default values for `moveToInsertRow()`. (Bug#3557)

- Not specifying database in URL caused `MalformedURL` exception. (Bug#3554)

- Auto-convert MySQL encoding names to Java encoding names if used for `characterEncoding` property. (Bug#3554)

- Use `junit.textui.TestRunner` for all unit tests (to allow them to be run from the command line outside of Ant or Eclipse). (Bug#3554)

- Added encoding names that are recognized on some JVMs to fix case where they were reverse-mapped to MySQL encoding names incorrectly. (Bug#3554)

- Made `StringRegressionTest` 4.1-unicode aware. (Bug#3520)

- Fixed regression in `PreparedStatement.setString()` and eastern character encodings. (Bug#3520)

- `DBMD.getSQLStateType()` returns incorrect value. (Bug#3520)

- Renamed `StringUtils.escapeSJISByteStream()` to more appropriate `escapeEasternUnicodeByteStream()`. (Bug#3511)

- `StringUtils.escapeSJISByteStream()` not covering all eastern double-byte charsets correctly. (Bug#3511)

- Return creating statement for `ResultSets` created by `getGeneratedKeys()`. (Bug#2957)

- Use `SET character_set_results` during initialization to allow any charset to be returned to the driver for result sets. (Bug#2670)

- Don't truncate `BLOB` or `CLOB` values 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. (Bug#2670)

- Map `binary` character set to `US-ASCII` to support `DATETIME` charset recognition for servers >= 4.1.2. (Bug#2670)

- Use `charsetnr` returned during connect to encode queries before issuing `SET NAMES` on MySQL >= 4.1.0. (Bug#2670)

- 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. (Bug#2670)

- Only set `character_set_results` for MySQL >= 4.1.0. (Bug#2670)

- Allow `url` parameter for `MysqlDataSource` and `MysqlConnectionPool` `DataSource` so that passing of other properties is possible from inside appservers.

- Don't escape SJIS/GBK/BIG5 when using MySQL-4.1 or newer.

- Backport documentation tooling from 3.1 branch.

- Added `failOverReadOnly` property, to allow end-user to configure state of connection (read-only/writable) when failed over.

- Allow `java.util.Date` to be sent in as parameter to `PreparedStatement.setObject()`, converting it to a `Timestamp` to maintain full precision. . (Bug#103)

- Add unsigned attribute to `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()` output in the `TYPE_NAME` column.

- Map duplicate key and foreign key errors to SQLState of `23000`.

- 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.

### A.4.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.11 (19 February 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- Return `java.lang.Double` for `FLOAT` type from `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName()`. (Bug#2855)

- Return `[B` instead of `java.lang.Object` for `BINARY`, `VARBINARY` and `LONGVARBINARY` types from `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName()` (JDBC compliance). (Bug#2855)

- Issue connection events on all instances created from a `ConnectionPoolDataSource`. (Bug#2855)

- Return `java.lang.Integer` for `TINYINT` and `SMALLINT` types from `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName()`. (Bug#2852)

- Added `useUnbufferedInput` parameter, and now use it by default (due to JVM issue http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4401235.html) (Bug#2578)

- Fixed failover always going to last host in list. (Bug#2578)

- Detect `on`/`off` or `1`, `2`, `3` form of `lower_case_table_names` value on server. (Bug#2578)

- `AutoReconnect` time was growing faster than exponentially. (Bug#2447)

- 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.

### A.4.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.10 (13 January 2004)

Bugs fixed:

- Enable caching of the parsing stage of prepared statements via the `cachePrepStmts`, `prepStmtCacheSize`, and `prepStmtCacheSqlLimit` properties (disabled by default). (Bug#2006)

- Fixed security exception when used in Applets (applets can't read the system property `file.encoding` which is needed for `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE`). (Bug#2006)

- Speed up parsing of `PreparedStatements`, try to use one-pass whenever possible. (Bug#2006)

- Fixed exception `Unknown character set 'danish'` on connect with JDK-1.4.0 (Bug#2006)

- Fixed mappings in SQLError to report deadlocks with SQLStates of `41000`. (Bug#2006)

- Removed static synchronization bottleneck from instance factory method of `SingleByteCharsetConverter`. (Bug#2006)

- Removed static synchronization bottleneck from `PreparedStatement.setTimestamp()`. (Bug#2006)

- `ResultSet.findColumn()` should use first matching column name when there are duplicate column names in `SELECT` query (JDBC-compliance). (Bug#2006)

- `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. (Bug#2006)

- Use constants for SQLStates. (Bug#2006)

- Map charset `ko18_ru` to `ko18r` when connected to MySQL-4.1.0 or newer. (Bug#2006)

- Ensure that `Buffer.writeString()` saves room for the `\0`. (Bug#2006)

- `ArrayIndexOutOfBounds` when parameter number == number of parameters + 1. (Bug#1958)

- Connection property `maxRows` not honored. (Bug#1933)

- Statements being created too many times in `DBMD.extractForeignKeyFromCreateTable()`. (Bug#1925)

- Support escape sequence {fn convert ... }. (Bug#1914)

- Implement `ResultSet.updateClob()`. (Bug#1913)

- Autoreconnect code didn't set catalog upon reconnect if it had been changed. (Bug#1913)

- `ResultSet.getObject()` on `TINYINT` and `SMALLINT` columns should return Java type `Integer`. (Bug#1913)

- Added more descriptive error message `Server Configuration Denies Access to DataSource`, as well as retrieval of message from server. (Bug#1913)

- `ResultSetMetaData.isCaseSensitive()` returned wrong value for `CHAR`/`VARCHAR` columns. (Bug#1913)

- Added `alwaysClearStream` connection property, which causes the driver to always empty any remaining data on the input stream before each query. (Bug#1913)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getSystemFunction()` returning bad function `VResultsSion`. (Bug#1775)

- Foreign Keys column sequence is not consistent in `DatabaseMetaData.getImported/Exported/CrossReference()`. (Bug#1731)

- Fix for `ArrayIndexOutOfBounds` exception when using `Statement.setMaxRows()`. (Bug#1695)

- Subsequent call to `ResultSet.updateFoo()` causes NPE if result set is not updatable. (Bug#1630)

- Fix for 4.1.1-style authentication with no password. (Bug#1630)

- Cross-database updatable result sets are not checked for updatability correctly. (Bug#1592)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()` should return `Types.LONGVARCHAR` for MySQL `LONGTEXT` type. (Bug#1592)

- Fixed regression of `Statement.getGeneratedKeys()` and `REPLACE` statements. (Bug#1576)

- Barge blobs and split packets not being read correctly. (Bug#1576)

- Backported fix for aliased tables and `UpdatableResultSets` in `checkUpdatability()` method from 3.1 branch. (Bug#1534)

- “Friendlier” exception message for `PacketTooLargeException`. (Bug#1534)

- Don't count quoted IDs when inside a 'string' in `PreparedStatement` parsing. (Bug#1511)

### A.4.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.9 (07 October 2003)

Bugs fixed:

- `ResultSet.get/setString` mashing char 127. (Bug#1247)

- 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. (Bug#1247)

- Added `com.mysql.jdbc.util.BaseBugReport` to help creation of testcases for bug reports. (Bug#1247)

- Backported authentication changes for 4.1.1 and newer from 3.1 branch. (Bug#1247)

- Made `databaseName`, `portNumber`, and `serverName` optional parameters for `MysqlDataSourceFactory`. (Bug#1246)

- Optimized `CLOB.setChracterStream()`. (Bug#1131)

- Fixed `CLOB.truncate()`. (Bug#1130)

- Fixed deadlock issue with `Statement.setMaxRows()`. (Bug#1099)

- `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()` getting confused about the keyword “set” in character columns. (Bug#1099)

- 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. (Bug#884)

- Don't fire connection closed events when closing pooled connections, or on `PooledConnection.getConnection()` with already open connections. (Bug#884)

- Double-escaping of `'\'` when charset is SJIS or GBK and `'\'` appears in non-escaped input. (Bug#879)

- 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. (Bug#879)

- Issue exception on `ResultSet.get`XXX`()` on empty result set (wasn't caught in some cases). (Bug#848)

- Don't hide messages from exceptions thrown in I/O layers. (Bug#848)

- Fixed regression in large split-packet handling. (Bug#848)

- Better diagnostic error messages in exceptions for “streaming” result sets. (Bug#848)

- Don't change timestamp TZ twice if `useTimezone==true`. (Bug#774)

- Don't wrap `SQLExceptions` in `RowDataDynamic`. (Bug#688)

- Don't try and reset isolation level on reconnect if MySQL doesn't support them. (Bug#688)

- 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`. (Bug#688)

- Change default statement type/concurrency to `TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY` and `CONCUR_READ_ONLY` (spec compliance). (Bug#688)

- Fix `UpdatableResultSet` to return values for `get`XXX`()` when on insert row. (Bug#675)

- Support `InnoDB` contraint names when extracting foreign key information in `DatabaseMetaData` (implementing ideas from Parwinder Sekhon). (Bug#664, Bug#517)

- Backported 4.1 protocol changes from 3.1 branch (server-side SQL states, new field information, larger client capability flags, connect-with-database, and so forth). (Bug#664, Bug#517)

- `refreshRow` didn't work when primary key values contained values that needed to be escaped (they ended up being doubly escaped). (Bug#661)

- Fixed `ResultSet.previous()` behavior to move current position to before result set when on first row of result set. (Bug#496)

- Fixed `Statement` and `PreparedStatement` issuing bogus queries when `setMaxRows()` had been used and a `LIMIT` clause was present in the query. (Bug#496)

- 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()`.

### A.4.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.8 (23 May 2003)

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed SJIS encoding bug, thanks to Naoto Sato. (Bug#378)

- Fix problem detecting server character set in some cases. (Bug#378)

- Allow multiple calls to `Statement.close()`. (Bug#378)

- Return correct number of generated keys when using `REPLACE` statements. (Bug#378)

- Unicode character 0xFFFF in a string would cause the driver to throw an `ArrayOutOfBoundsException`. . (Bug#378)

- Fix row data decoding error when using very large packets. (Bug#378)

- Optimized row data decoding. (Bug#378)

- Issue exception when operating on an already closed prepared statement. (Bug#378)

- Optimized usage of `EscapeProcessor`. (Bug#378)

- 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.

- Return list of generated keys when using multi-value `INSERTS` with `Statement.getGeneratedKeys()`.

- Allow bogus URLs in `Driver.getPropertyInfo()`.

### A.4.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.7 (08 April 2003)

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed charset issues with database metadata (charset was not getting set correctly).

- You can now toggle profiling on/off using `Connection.setProfileSql(boolean)`.

- 4.1 Column Metadata fixes.

- Fixed `MysqlPooledConnection.close()` calling wrong event type.

- Fixed `StringIndexOutOfBoundsException` in `PreparedStatement.setClob()`.

- `IOExceptions` during a transaction now cause the `Connection` to be closed.

- Remove synchronization from `Driver.connect()` and `Driver.acceptsUrl()`.

- Fixed missing conversion for `YEAR` type in `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnTypeName()`.

- 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`.

- Don't pick up indexes that start with `pri` as primary keys for `DBMD.getPrimaryKeys()`.

- Ensure that packet size from `alignPacketSize()` does not exceed `max_allowed_packet` (JVM bug)

- Don't reset `Connection.isReadOnly()` when autoReconnecting.

- Fixed escaping of 0x5c (`'\'`) character for GBK and Big5 charsets.

- Fixed `ResultSet.getTimestamp()` when underlying field is of type `DATE`.

- Throw `SQLExceptions` when trying to do operations on a forcefully closed `Connection` (that is, when a communication link failure occurs).

### A.4.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.6 (18 February 2003)

Bugs fixed:

- Backported 4.1 charset field info changes from Connector/J 3.1.

- Fixed `Statement.setMaxRows()` to stop sending `LIMIT` type queries when not needed (performance).

- Fixed `DBMD.getTypeInfo()` and `DBMD.getColumns()` returning different value for precision in `TEXT` and `BLOB` types.

- Fixed `SQLExceptions` getting swallowed on initial connect.

- Fixed `ResultSetMetaData` to return `""` when catalog not known. Fixes `NullPointerExceptions` with Sun's `CachedRowSet`.

- Allow ignoring of warning for “non transactional tables” during rollback (compliance/usability) by setting `ignoreNonTxTables` property to `true`.

- Clean up `Statement` query/method mismatch tests (that is, `INSERT` not allowed with `.executeQuery()`).

- Fixed `ResultSetMetaData.isWritable()` to return correct value.

- More checks added in `ResultSet` traversal method to catch when in closed state.

- Implemented `Blob.setBytes()`. You still need to pass the resultant `Blob` back into an updatable `ResultSet` or `PreparedStatement` to persist the changes, because MySQL does not support “locators”.

- Add “window” of different `NULL` sorting behavior to `DBMD.nullsAreSortedAtStart` (4.0.2 to 4.0.10, true; otherwise, no).

### A.4.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.5 (22 January 2003)

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed `ResultSet.isBeforeFirst()` for empty result sets.

- Added missing `LONGTEXT` type to `DBMD.getColumns()`.

- Implemented an empty `TypeMap` for `Connection.getTypeMap()` so that some third-party apps work with MySQL (IBM WebSphere 5.0 Connection pool).

- Added update options for foreign key metadata.

- Fixed `Buffer.fastSkipLenString()` causing `ArrayIndexOutOfBounds` exceptions with some queries when unpacking fields.

- Quote table names in `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()`, `getPrimaryKeys()`, `getIndexInfo()`, `getBestRowIdentifier()`.

- Retrieve `TX_ISOLATION` from database for `Connection.getTransactionIsolation()` when the MySQL version supports it, instead of an instance variable.

- Greatly reduce memory required for `setBinaryStream()` in `PreparedStatements`.

### A.4.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.4 (06 January 2003)

Bugs fixed:

- Streamlined character conversion and `byte[]` handling in `PreparedStatements` for `setByte()`.

- Fixed `PreparedStatement.executeBatch()` parameter overwriting.

- Added quoted identifiers to database names for `Connection.setCatalog`.

- Added support for 4.0.8-style large packets.

- 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 `SELECT` statements on tables with primary keys and that you have selected all primary keys in your query.

- Added support for quoted identifiers in `PreparedStatement` parser.

### A.4.15. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.3 (17 December 2002)

Bugs fixed:

- Allow user to alter behavior of `Statement`/ `PreparedStatement.executeBatch()` via `continueBatchOnError` property (defaults to `true`).

- More robust escape tokenizer: Recognize `--` comments, and allow nested escape sequences (see `testsuite.EscapeProcessingTest`).

- Fixed `Buffer.isLastDataPacket()` for 4.1 and newer servers.

- `NamedPipeSocketFactory` now works (only intended for Windows), see `README` for instructions.

- Changed `charsToByte` in `SingleByteCharConverter` to be non-static.

- Use non-aliased table/column names and database names to fully qualify tables and columns in `UpdatableResultSet` (requires MySQL-4.1 or newer).

- `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`).

- Implemented `Connection.nativeSQL()`.

- Fixed `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnTypeName()` returning `BLOB` for `TEXT` and `TEXT` for `BLOB` types.

- Fixed charset handling in `Fields.java`.

- Because of above, implemented `ResultSetMetaData.isAutoIncrement()` to use `Field.isAutoIncrement()`.

- Substitute `'?'` for unknown character conversions in single-byte character sets instead of `'\0'`.

- Added `CLIENT_LONG_FLAG` to be able to get more column flags (`isAutoIncrement()` being the most important).

- Honor `lower_case_table_names` when enabled in the server when doing table name comparisons in `DatabaseMetaData` methods.

- `DBMD.getImported/ExportedKeys()` now handles multiple foreign keys per table.

- More robust implementation of updatable result sets. Checks that all primary keys of the table have been selected.

- Some MySQL-4.1 protocol support (extended field info from selects).

- Check for connection closed in more `Connection` methods (`createStatement`, `prepareStatement`, `setTransactionIsolation`, `setAutoCommit`).

- Fixed `ResultSetMetaData.getPrecision()` returning incorrect values for some floating-point types.

- Changed `SingleByteCharConverter` to use lazy initialization of each converter.

### A.4.16. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.2 (08 November 2002)

Bugs fixed:

- Implemented `Clob.setString()`.

- Added `com.mysql.jdbc.MiniAdmin` class, which allows you to send `shutdown` command to MySQL server. This is intended to be used when “embedding” Java and MySQL server together in an end-user application.

- Added SSL support. See `README` for information on how to use it.

- All `DBMD` result set columns describing schemas now return `NULL` to be more compliant with the behavior of other JDBC drivers for other database systems (MySQL does not support schemas).

- Use `SHOW CREATE TABLE` when possible for determining foreign key information for `DatabaseMetaData`. Also allows cascade options for `DELETE` information to be returned.

- Implemented `Clob.setCharacterStream()`.

- Failover and `autoReconnect` work only when the connection is in an `autoCommit(false)` state, in order to stay transaction-safe.

- Fixed `DBMD.supportsResultSetConcurrency()` so that it returns `true` for `ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE` and `ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY` or `ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE`.

- Implemented `Clob.setAsciiStream()`.

- 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 incorrect conversion in `ResultSet.getLong()`.

- Implemented `ResultSet.updateBlob()`.

- Removed some not-needed temporary object creation by smarter use of `Strings` in `EscapeProcessor`, `Connection` and `DatabaseMetaData` classes.

- Escape `0x5c` character in strings for the SJIS charset.

- `PreparedStatement` now honors stream lengths in setBinary/Ascii/Character Stream() unless you set the connection property `useStreamLengthsInPrepStmts` to `false`.

- Fixed issue with updatable result sets and `PreparedStatements` not working.

- Fixed start position off-by-1 error in `Clob.getSubString()`.

- Added `connectTimeout` parameter that allows users of JDK-1.4 and newer to specify a maximum time to wait to establish a connection.

- Fixed various non-ASCII character encoding issues.

- Fixed `ResultSet.isLast()` for empty result sets (should return `false`).

- Added driver property `useHostsInPrivileges`. Defaults to `true`. Affects whether or not `@hostname` will be used in `DBMD.getColumn/TablePrivileges`.

- Fixed `ResultSet.setFetchDirection(FETCH_UNKNOWN)`.

- Added `queriesBeforeRetryMaster` property that specifies how many queries to issue when failed over before attempting to reconnect to the master (defaults to 50).

- Fixed issue when calling `Statement.setFetchSize()` when using arbitrary values.

- Properly restore connection properties when autoReconnecting or failing-over, including `autoCommit` state, and isolation level.

- Implemented `Clob.truncate()`.

### A.4.17. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.1 (21 September 2002)

Bugs fixed:

- Charsets now automatically detected. Optimized code for single-byte character set conversion.

- Fixed `ResultSetMetaData.isSigned()` for `TINYINT` and `BIGINT`.

- Fixed `RowDataStatic.getAt()` off-by-one bug.

- Fixed `ResultSet.getRow()` off-by-one bug.

- Massive code clean-up to follow Java coding conventions (the time had come).

- Implemented `ResultSet.getCharacterStream()`.

- Added limited `Clob` functionality (`ResultSet.getClob()`, `PreparedStatemtent.setClob()`, `PreparedStatement.setObject(Clob)`.

- `Connection.isClosed()` no longer “pings” the server.

- `Connection.close()` issues `rollback()` when `getAutoCommit()` is `false`.

- Added `socketTimeout` parameter to URL.

- Added `LOCAL TEMPORARY` to table types in `DatabaseMetaData.getTableTypes()`.

- Added `paranoid` parameter, which sanitizes error messages by removing “sensitive” information from them (such as hostnames, ports, or usernames), as well as clearing “sensitive” data structures when possible.

### A.4.18. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.0 (31 July 2002)

Bugs fixed:

- General source-code cleanup.

- The driver now only works with JDK-1.2 or newer.

- Fix and sort primary key names in `DBMetaData` (SF bugs 582086 and 582086).

- `ResultSet.getTimestamp()` now works for `DATE` types (SF bug 559134).

- Float types now reported as `java.sql.Types.FLOAT` (SF bug 579573).

- Support for streaming (row-by-row) result sets (see `README`) Thanks to Doron.

- Testsuite now uses Junit (which you can get from http://www.junit.org.

- JDBC Compliance: Passes all tests besides stored procedure tests.

- `ResultSet.getDate/Time/Timestamp` now recognizes all forms of invalid values that have been set to all zeros by MySQL (SF bug 586058).

- Added multi-host failover support (see `README`).

- Repackaging: New driver name is `com.mysql.jdbc.Driver`, old name still works, though (the driver is now provided by MySQL-AB).

- Support for large packets (new addition to MySQL-4.0 protocol), see `README` for more information.

- Better checking for closed connections in `Statement` and `PreparedStatement`.

- Performance improvements in string handling and field metadata creation (lazily instantiated) contributed by Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.

- JDBC-3.0 functionality including `Statement/PreparedStatement.getGeneratedKeys()` and `ResultSet.getURL()`.

- Overall speed improvements via controlling transient object creation in `MysqlIO` class when reading packets.

- !!! LICENSE CHANGE !!! The driver is now GPL. If you need non-GPL licenses, please contact me `<mark@mysql.com>`.

- Performance enchancements: Driver is now 50–100% faster in most situations, and creates fewer temporary objects.

## A.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.x

### A.5.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.14 (16 May 2002)

Bugs fixed:

- `ResultSet.getDouble()` now uses code built into JDK to be more precise (but slower).

- Fixed typo for `relaxAutoCommit` parameter.

- `LogicalHandle.isClosed()` calls through to physical connection.

- Added SQL profiling (to `STDERR`). Set `profileSql=true` in your JDBC URL. See `README` for more information.

- `PreparedStatement` now releases resources on `.close()`. (SF bug 553268)

- More code cleanup.

- Quoted identifiers not used if server version does not support them. Also, if server started with `--ansi` or `--sql-mode=ANSI_QUOTES`, “`"`” will be used as an identifier quote character, otherwise “`'`” will be used.

### A.5.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.13 (24 April 2002)

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed unicode chars being read incorrectly. (SF bug 541088)

- Faster blob escaping for `PrepStmt`.

- Added `setURL()` to `MySQLXADataSource`. (SF bug 546019)

- Added `set`/`getPortNumber()` to `DataSource(s)`. (SF bug 548167)

- `PreparedStatement.toString()` fixed. (SF bug 534026)

- More code cleanup.

- 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)

- `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName()` now implemented.

### A.5.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.12 (07 April 2002)

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed `testsuite.Traversal` `afterLast()` bug, thanks to Igor Lastric.

- Added new types to `getTypeInfo()`, fixed existing types thanks to Al Davis and Kid Kalanon.

- Fixed time zone off-by-1-hour bug in `PreparedStatement` (538286, 528785).

- Added identifier quoting to all `DatabaseMetaData` methods that need them (should fix 518108).

- Added support for `BIT` types (51870) to `PreparedStatement`.

- `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.

- Relaxed synchronization in all classes, should fix 520615 and 520393.

- `DataSources` - fixed `setUrl` bug (511614, 525565), wrong datasource class name (532816, 528767).

- Added support for `YEAR` type (533556).

- Fixes for `ResultSet` updatability in `PreparedStatement`.

- `ResultSet`: Fixed updatability (values being set to `null` if not updated).

- Added `getTable/ColumnPrivileges()` to DBMD (fixes 484502).

- Added `getIdleFor()` method to `Connection` and `MysqlLogicalHandle`.

- `ResultSet.refreshRow()` implemented.

- Fixed `getRow()` bug (527165) in `ResultSet`.

- General code cleanup.

### A.5.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.11 (27 January 2002)

Bugs fixed:

- Full synchronization of `Statement.java`.

- Fixed missing `DELETE_RULE` value in `DBMD.getImported/ExportedKeys()` and `getCrossReference()`.

- More changes to fix `Unexpected end of input stream` errors when reading `BLOB` values. This should be the last fix.

### A.5.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.10 (24 January 2002)

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed null-pointer-exceptions when using `MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource` with Websphere 4 (bug 505839).

- Fixed spurious `Unexpected end of input stream` errors in `MysqlIO` (bug 507456).

### A.5.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.9 (13 January 2002)

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed extra memory allocation in `MysqlIO.readPacket()` (bug 488663).

- Added detection of network connection being closed when reading packets (thanks to Todd Lizambri).

- Fixed casting bug in `PreparedStatement` (bug 488663).

- `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).

- Fixed quoting error with escape processor (bug 486265).

- 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).

- Ant build was corrupting included `jar` files, fixed (bug 487669).

- Report batch update support through `DatabaseMetaData` (bug 495101).

- Implementation of `DatabaseMetaData.getExported/ImportedKeys()` and `getCrossReference()`.

- Fixed off-by-one-hour error in `PreparedStatement.setTimestamp()` (bug 491577).

- 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).

### A.5.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.8 (25 November 2001)

Bugs fixed:

- `XADataSource`/`ConnectionPoolDataSource` code (experimental)

- `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).

- Batch updates now supported (thanks to some inspiration from Daniel Rall).

- `PreparedStatement.setAnyNumericType()` now handles positive exponents correctly (adds `+` so MySQL can understand it).

### A.5.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.7 (24 October 2001)

Bugs fixed:

- 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 `PreparedStatement` generating SQL that would end up with syntax errors for some queries.

- `PreparedStatement.setCharacterStream()` now implemented

- Captialize type names when `captializeTypeNames=true` is passed in URL or properties (for WebObjects. (thanks to Anjo Krank)

- `ResultSet.getBlob()` now returns `null` if column value was `null`.

- Fixed `ResultSetMetaData.getPrecision()` returning one less than actual on newer versions of MySQL.

- Fixed dangling socket problem when in high availability (`autoReconnect=true`) mode, and finalizer for `Connection` will close any dangling sockets on GC.

- Fixed time zone issue in `PreparedStatement.setTimestamp()`. (thanks to Erik Olofsson)

- PreparedStatement.setDouble() now uses full-precision doubles (reverting a fix made earlier to truncate them).

- Fixed `DatabaseMetaData.supportsTransactions()`, and `supportsTransactionIsolationLevel()` and `getTypeInfo()` `SQL_DATETIME_SUB` and `SQL_DATA_TYPE` fields not being readable.

- Updatable result sets now correctly handle `NULL` values in fields.

- PreparedStatement.setBoolean() will use 1/0 for values if your MySQL version is 3.21.23 or higher.

- Fixed `ResultSet.isAfterLast()` always returning `false`.

### A.5.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.6 (16 June 2001)

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed `PreparedStatement` parameter checking.

- Fixed case-sensitive column names in `ResultSet.java`.

### A.5.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.5 (13 June 2001)

Bugs fixed:

- `ResultSet.insertRow()` works now, even if not all columns are set (they will be set to `NULL`).

- Added `Byte` to `PreparedStatement.setObject()`.

- Fixed data parsing of `TIMESTAMP` values with 2-digit years.

- Added `ISOLATION` level support to `Connection.setIsolationLevel()`

- `DataBaseMetaData.getCrossReference()` no longer `ArrayIndexOOB`.

- `ResultSet.getBoolean()` now recognizes `-1` as `true`.

- `ResultSet` has +/-Inf/inf support.

- `getObject()` on `ResultSet` correctly does `TINYINT`->`Byte` and `SMALLINT`->`Short`.

- Fixed `ResultSetMetaData.getColumnTypeName` for `TEXT`/`BLOB`.

- Fixed `ArrayIndexOutOfBounds` when sending large `BLOB` queries. (Max size packet was not being set)

- Fixed NPE on `PreparedStatement.executeUpdate()` when all columns have not been set.

- Fixed `ResultSet.getBlob()` `ArrayIndex` out-of-bounds.

### A.5.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.3 (03 December 2000)

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed composite key problem with updatable result sets.

- Faster ASCII string operations.

- Fixed off-by-one error in `java.sql.Blob` implementation code.

- Fixed incorrect detection of `MAX_ALLOWED_PACKET`, so sending large blobs should work now.

- Added detection of -/+INF for doubles.

- Added `ultraDevHack` URL parameter, set to `true` to allow (broken) Macromedia UltraDev to use the driver.

- Implemented `getBigDecimal()` without scale component for JDBC2.

### A.5.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.1 (06 April 2000)

Bugs fixed:

- Columns that are of type `TEXT` now return as `Strings` when you use `getObject()`.

- Cleaned up exception handling when driver connects.

- Fixed `RSMD.isWritable()` returning wrong value. Thanks to Moritz Maass.

- `DatabaseMetaData.getPrimaryKeys()` now works correctly with respect to `key_seq`. Thanks to Brian Slesinsky.

- Fixed many JDBC-2.0 traversal, positioning bugs, especially with respect to empty result sets. Thanks to Ron Smits, Nick Brook, Cessar Garcia and Carlos Martinez.

- No escape processing is done on `PreparedStatements` anymore per JDBC spec.

- Fixed some issues with updatability support in `ResultSet` when using multiple primary keys.

### A.5.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.0pre5 (21 February 2000)

- Fixed Bad Handshake problem.

### A.5.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.0pre4 (10 January 2000)

- 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 with respect to packet sizing when reading from the server and when alloc'ing to write to the server.

### A.5.15. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.0pre (17 August 1999)

- 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)

## A.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.2b (04 July 1999)

- 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.

## A.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.2.x and lower

### A.7.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.2a (14 April 1999)

- 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)

### A.7.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1i (24 March 1999)

- Fixed Timestamps for PreparedStatements

- Fixed null pointer exceptions in RSMD and RS

- Re-compiled with jikes for valid class files (thanks ms!)

### A.7.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1h (08 March 1999)

- Fixed escape processor to deal with unmatched { 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)

### A.7.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1g (19 February 1999)

- 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 untouched to the MySQL server.

- Fixes to getDriverPropertyInfo().

### A.7.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1f (31 December 1998)

- 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)

### A.7.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1b (03 November 1998)

- 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.

### A.7.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1 (02 September 1998)

- 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; for example, 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.

### A.7.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.0 (24 August 1998)

- 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=... and so forth).

### A.7.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 0.9d (04 August 1998)

- 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, and so forth.

- 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.

### A.7.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 0.9 (28 July 1998)

- 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.

### A.7.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 0.8 (06 July 1998)

- 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.

### A.7.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 0.7 (01 July 1998)

- 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.

### A.7.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 0.6 (21 May 1998)

- 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()`