# HG changeset patch
# User Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
# Date 1506608595 -7200
# Node ID e701b51b3552ce2f3ed0d0484afa7c43a390e709
# Parent  8700d9ef2acead3d273fcdd6c83cab0a790cd4de
Extend release.txt with information on MonetDB JDBC connection URL format

diff --git a/release.txt b/release.txt
--- a/release.txt
+++ b/release.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,30 @@ Release date: 2017-07-28
 This JDBC driver is designed for use with MonetDB, a main-memory
 database.  For more information see https://www.monetdb.org/.
 
-The JDBC driver complies to JDBC 4.1 definition, see
+The MonetDB JDBC connection URL format is:
+  jdbc:monetdb://<hostname>[:<portnr>]/<databasename>[?<property>=<value>[;<property>=<value>]]
+
+The databasename must be provided and be equal to the name of the database served by the
+mserver5 process listening on the specified host and port number (default port is 50000).
+
+Supported properties are:
+	user=<login name>
+	password=<secret value>
+	so_timeout=<time in milliseconds>
+	hash=<SHA1 or MD5>
+	language=<mal or sql>
+	treat_blob_as_binary=true
+	treat_clob_as_varchar=true
+	debug=true
+	logfile=<name of logfile>
+
+For example:
+  jdbc:monetdb://localhost:41000/demo?user=monetdb;password=monetdb;so_timeout=7000;treat_clob_as_varchar=true
+
+See also: https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/Manuals/SQLreference/Programming/JDBC
+
+
+The MonetDB JDBC driver complies to JDBC 4.1 definition, see
  http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jdbc/index.html
 
 Note: as of Jul2015 release we compile all the java sources to target: Java 1.7