A MySQL-Driver for Go's database/sql package

Current tagged Release: March 2, 2013 (stable beta 4)

(master branch)

• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
  • DSN (Data Source Name)
    • Password
    • Protocol
    • Address
    • Parameters
    • Examples
  • LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE support
• Testing / Development
• License

• Lightweight and fast
• Native Go implementation. No C-bindings, just pure Go
• Connections over TCP/IPv4, TCP/IPv6 or Unix domain sockets
• Automatic handling of broken connections
• Automatic Connection Pooling (by database/sql package)
• Supports queries larger than 16MB
• Intelligent LONG DATA handling in prepared statements
• Secure LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE support with file Whitelisting and io.Reader support

• Go 1.0.3 or higher
• MySQL (Version 4.1 or higher), MariaDB or Percona Server

Simple 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, e := sql.Open("mysql", "user:password@/dbname?charset=utf8")

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&...&paramN=valueN]

A DSN in its fullest form:

username:password@protocol(address)/dbname?param=value

Except of the databasename, all values are optional. So the minimal DSN is:

/dbname

If you do not want to preselect a database, leave dbname empty:

/

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!

Possible Parameters are:

• timeout: 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.
• charset: 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).
• allowAllFiles: allowAllFiles=true disables the file Whitelist for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE and allows all files. Might be insecure!

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"

user@unix(/path/to/socket)/dbname

user:password@tcp(localhost:5555)/dbname?charset=utf8&autocommit=true

user:password@tcp([de:ad:be:ef::ca:fe]:80)/dbname?charset=utf8mb4,utf8

user:password@/dbname

No Database preselected:

user:password@/

For 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 also the godoc of Go-MySQL-Driver

To run the driver tests you may need to adjust the configuration. See this 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.

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:

• You can use the unchanged source code both in private as also commercial
• You needn't publish the source code of your library as long the files licensed under the MPL 2.0 are unchanged
• You must publish the source code of any changed files licensed under the MPL 2.0 under a) the MPL 2.0 itself or b) a compatible license (e.g. GPL 3.0 or Apache License 2.0)

Please read the MPL 2.0 FAQ if you have further questions regarding the license.

You can read the full terms here: LICENSE