Development Ideas

Send Connection Parameters in Auth Response [MySQL 5.6.6+]

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/connection-phase-packets.html#packet-Protocol::HandshakeResponse41 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/capability-flags.html#flag-CLIENT_CONNECT_ATTRS

Support more Authentication plugins

• .mylogin.cnf http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html
• SHA-256 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/sha256-authentication-plugin.html
• auth_socket http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/socket-authentication-plugin.html

Network Compression Mode (Issue #24)

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/compression.html

Google CloudSQL Support

CloudSQL is hosted MySQL available on AppEngine. The driver should provide support via a build tag:

// +build appengine

package mysql

import (
        "appengine/cloudsql"
)

[...]

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/go/cloud-sql/reference