A MySQL-Driver for Go's database/sql package
Version 1.1 (November 02, 2013)
sql.RawBytes support.LONG DATA handling in prepared statementsLOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE support with file Whitelisting and io.Reader supporttime.Time parsingSimple install the package to your $GOPATH with the go tool from shell:
$ go get github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql
Make sure Git is installed on your machine and in your system's PATH.
Go MySQL Driver is an implementation of Go's database/sql/driver interface. You only need to import the driver and can use the full database/sql API then.
Use mysql as driverName and a valid DSN as dataSourceName:
import "database/sql"
import _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
db, err := sql.Open("mysql", "user:password@/dbname")
Examples are available in our Wiki.
The Data Source Name has a common format, like e.g. PEAR DB uses it, but without type-prefix (optional parts marked by squared brackets):
[username[:password]@][protocol[(address)]]/dbname[?param1=value1&...¶mN=valueN]
A DSN in its fullest form:
username:password@protocol(address)/dbname?param=value
Except for the databasename, all values are optional. So the minimal DSN is:
/dbname
If you do not want to preselect a database, leave dbname empty:
/
This has the same effect as an empty DSN string:
Passwords can consist of any character. Escaping is not necessary.
See net.Dial for more information which networks are available. In general you should use an Unix domain socket if available and TCP otherwise for best performance.
For TCP and UDP networks, addresses have the form host:port. If host is a literal IPv6 address, it must be enclosed in square brackets. The functions net.JoinHostPort and net.SplitHostPort manipulate addresses in this form.
For Unix domain sockets the address is the absolute path to the MySQL-Server-socket, e.g. /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock or /tmp/mysql.sock.
Parameters are case-sensitive!
allowAllFilesType: bool Valid Values: true, false Default: false
allowAllFiles=true disables the file Whitelist for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE and allows all files. Might be insecure!
allowOldPasswordsType: bool Valid Values: true, false Default: false
allowAllFiles=true allows the usage of the insecure old password method. This should be avoided, but is necessary in some cases. See also the old_passwords wiki page.
charsetType: string Valid Values: <name> Default: none
Sets the charset used for client-server interaction ("SET NAMES <value>"). If multiple charsets are set (separated by a comma), the following charset is used if setting the charset failes. This enables support for utf8mb4 (introduced in MySQL 5.5.3) with fallback to utf8 for older servers (charset=utf8mb4,utf8).
clientFoundRowsType: bool Valid Values: true, false Default: false
clientFoundRows=true causes an UPDATE to return the number of matching rows instead of the number of rows changed.
locType: string Valid Values: <escaped name> Default: UTC
Sets the location for time.Time values (when using parseTime=true). “Local” sets the system's location. See time.LoadLocation for details.
Please keep in mind, that param values must be url.QueryEscape'ed. Alternatively you can manually replace the / with %2F. For example US/Pacific would be loc=US%2FPacific.
parseTimeType: bool Valid Values: true, false Default: false
parseTime=true changes the output type of DATE and DATETIME values to time.Time instead of []byte / string
strictType: bool Valid Values: true, false Default: false
strict=true enables strict mode. MySQL warnings are treated as errors.
timeoutType: decimal number Default: OS default
Driver side connection timeout. The value must be a string of decimal numbers, each with optional fraction and a unit suffix ( “ms”, “s”, “m”, “h” ), such as “30s”, “0.5m” or “1m30s”. To set a server side timeout, use the parameter wait_timeout.
tlsType: bool / string Valid Values: true, false, skip-verify, <name> Default: false
tls=true enables TLS / SSL encrypted connection to the server. Use skip-verify if you want to use a self-signed or invalid certificate (server side). Use a custom value registered with mysql.RegisterTLSConfig.
All other parameters are interpreted as system variables:
autocommit: "SET autocommit=<value>"time_zone: "SET time_zone=<value>"tx_isolation: "SET tx_isolation=<value>"param: "SET <param>=<value>"The values must be url.QueryEscape'ed!
user@unix(/path/to/socket)/dbname
root:pw@unix(/tmp/mysql.sock)/myDatabase?loc=Local
user:password@tcp(localhost:5555)/dbname?tls=skip-verify&autocommit=true
TCP via IPv6:
user:password@tcp([de:ad:be:ef::ca:fe]:80)/dbname?timeout=90s
TCP on a remote host, e.g. Amazon RDS:
id:password@tcp(your-amazonaws-uri.com:3306)/dbname
TCP using default port (3306) on localhost:
user:password@tcp/dbname&charset=utf8mb4,utf8&sys_var=esc%40ped
Use the default protocol (tcp) and host (localhost:3306):
user:password@/dbname
No Database preselected:
user:password@/
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE supportFor this feature you need direct access to the package. Therefore you must change the import path (no _):
import "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
Files must be whitelisted by registering them with mysql.RegisterLocalFile(filepath) (recommended) or the Whitelist check must be deactivated by using the DSN parameter allowAllFiles=true (Might be insecure!).
To use a io.Reader a handler function must be registered with mysql.RegisterReaderHandler(name, handler) which returns a io.Reader or io.ReadCloser. The Reader is available with the filepath Reader::<name> then.
See the godoc of Go-MySQL-Driver for details.
time.Time supportThe default internal output type of MySQL DATE and DATETIME values is []byte which allows you to scan the value into a []byte, string or sql.RawBytes variable in your programm.
However, many want to scan MySQL DATE and DATETIME values into time.Time variables, which is the logical opposite in Go to DATE and DATETIME in MySQL. You can do that by changing the internal output type from []byte to time.Time with the DSN parameter parseTime=true. You can set the default time.Time location with the loc DSN parameter.
Caution: As of Go 1.1, this makes time.Time the only variable type you can scan DATE and DATETIME values into. This breaks for example sql.RawBytes support.
Alternatively you can use the NullTime type as the scan destination, which works with both time.Time and string / []byte.
Since version 1.1 Go-MySQL-Driver automatically uses the collation utf8_general_ci by default. Adding &charset=utf8 (alias for SET NAMES utf8) to the DSN is not necessary anymore in most cases.
See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-unicode.html for more details on MySQL's Unicode support.
To run the driver tests you may need to adjust the configuration. See the Testing Wiki-Page for details.
Go-MySQL-Driver is not feature-complete yet. Your help is very appreciated. If you want to contribute, you can work on an open issue or review a pull request.
See the Contributing Guidelines for details.
Go-MySQL-Driver is licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
Mozilla summarizes the license scope as follows:
MPL: The copyleft applies to any files containing MPLed code.
That means:
Please read the MPL 2.0 FAQ if you have further questions regarding the license.
You can read the full terms here: LICENSE
