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  Fix 'this authentication plugin is not supported' issue while using Go to connect MySQL 8

MySQL 8 has changed its default authentication plugin from mysql_native_password to caching_sha2_password to improve its security. However many third party libraries seem act slowly to catch up with this change. This causes some compatible issues with their connection to MySQL. One of the issues is seen in Go libraries while it's trying to connect to MySQL 8.The specific error has been observed is "this authentication plugin is not supported". The root cause of this issue is that the go-sql-driver didn't support the new default authentication plugin. This bug has been reported a coup...

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