Changed charsToByte in SingleByteCharConverter to be non-static.

Changed SingleByteCharConverter to use lazy initialization of each converter.

Fixed charset handling in Fields.java.

Implemented Connection.nativeSQL().

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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