Description
Here's a gist with minimal Go code and SQL demonstrating the issue: https://gist.github.com/pib/f8c9a4e153e6d226d2ee
When the data comes back in the no-placeholder version (which from #215, #211, #86 I see is different because it is run in text mode), the float value (which is a 32-bit float in MySQL) is parsed properly into a float64.
When the data comes back in the placeholder version, it is treated the same way as if strconv.ParseFloat(val, 32) was called demonstrated here: https://play.golang.org/p/HqWFhvYD31.
Switching to a float32 fixed the issue in my case, but this was a very confusing situation and it took a while to realize that it was caused by differences in behavior between queries with and without placeholders.
It seems like readRow (here: https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql/blob/master/packets.go#L1151) should be putting MySQL float types into a float32 instead of a float64 to prevent this situation.