7.3. `mysql' driver - MySQL, powerful yet basically free engine

Supported databases

Mysql driver supports MySQL - very powerful but mostly free SQL engine. MySQL is developed at TCX AB, Sweden and it's home page is http://www.mysql.com/.

This driver is based on 3.21 branch of MySQL and will not work with 3.20.* versions (because of TCP port change at least).

Accepted options

Mysql driver accepts folowing options:

--- database (required!)

A reference to internal MySQL database name.

--- host

A host (FQDN or IP address) on which the server reside. By default `localhost' is used.

--- password

A password used when connecting to engine and selecting database (no default).

--- user

A user name passed to database when connecting and selecting database (no default).

Driver's author

MySQL driver is written by Andrew Maltsev ( am@amsoft.ru).

Last modified at March 19, 1998.