Issue #694: Support for Oracle style parenthesised column modification:

ALTER TABLE foo MODIFY (bar VARCHAR2(255) NOT NULL)

Ensured that an index is used for ordering, even if NULLS FIRST is sp…

Ensured that an index is used for ordering, even if NULLS FIRST is specified for an ASCENDING sort order. Issue #699.

Fix classpath loading issue #697

fix postgres connection issue #695 with redshift driver in classpath

and remove now unused AutoCloseInputStream

problem report and fix by lubomir.benes on the  h2 mailing list

Make use of Objects.hashCode() present in Java7 and remove Utils.hash…

Updated _text_de.prop for German translation

fixed some typos and grammar in the German translation. uniquely used SQL Skript.

Bugfix for #682: Queries with 'like' expressions may filter rows incorrectly...

this field might be not accessed, but we need to trigger other logic

found by UCDetector

found by UCDetector

Use Gregorian calendar regardless of the default locale

Renames DateTimeUtils' createCalendar() to createGregorianCalendar() and improves the javadoc.

No need to create garbage if settings have value

Date parsing logic assumes that the calendar type is Gregorian, so it should use the Gregorian calendar even if the default locale says otherwise.

Fixes #675

on table containing more than one LOB column

found by CI and the new meta locking debugging stuff

after my previous commit which removed the use of the system session. Since we are taking the meta lock here, we don't need any extra synchronization