Changed SingleByteCharConverter to use lazy initialization of each converter.

Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getPrecision() returning incorrect values for some floating-point types.

Check for connection closed in more Connection methods (createStatement, prepareStatement, setTransactionIsolation, setAutoCommit).

Some MySQL-4.1 protocol support (extended field info from selects).

More robust implementation of updatable result sets. Checks that all primary keys of the table have been selected.

DBMD.getImported/ExportedKeys() now handles multiple foreign keys per table.

Honor lower_case_table_names when enabled in the server when doing table name comparisons in DatabaseMetaData methods.

Added CLIENT_LONG_FLAG to be able to get more column flags (isAutoIncrement() being the most important).

Substitute '?' for unknown character conversions in single-byte character sets instead of '\0'.

Because of above, implemented ResultSetMetaData.isAutoIncrement() to use Field.isAutoIncrement().

Fixed charset handling in Fields.java.

Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getColumnTypeName() returning BLOB for TEXT and TEXT for BLOB types.

Implemented Connection.nativeSQL().

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ... now works, if your server is configured to permit it. Can be turned off with the allowLoadLocalInfile property (see the README).

Use nonaliased table/column names and database names to fully qualify tables and columns in UpdatableResultSet (requires MySQL-4.1 or newer).

Changed charsToByte in SingleByteCharConverter to be nonstatic.

NamedPipeSocketFactory now works (only intended for Windows), see README for instructions.

Fixed Buffer.isLastDataPacket() for 4.1 and newer servers.

More robust escape tokenizer: Recognize -- comments, and permit nested escape sequences (see testsuite.EscapeProcessingTest).

Allow user to alter behavior of Statement/ PreparedStatement.executeBatch() using continueBatchOnError property (defaults to true).