Additional ugliness required because mysql does stupid stuff like this:
mysql> CREATE TABLE foo (id int) TYPE=innodb;
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 2 warnings (0.00 sec)
mysql> SHOW CREATE TABLE foo;
CREATE TABLE `foo` (
`id` int(11) default NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
In addition, BEGIN, COMMIT and ROLLBACK all succeed, even when no tables
support transactions.
floating point values into strings during fetch. This is a compatibility hack
for drivers that return native types rather than string representations.
We use this flag in the test suite to persuade postgres tests to pass.
