diff --git a/src/main/java/com/alibaba/druid/pool/vendor/ExceptionSorter.java b/src/main/java/com/alibaba/druid/pool/vendor/ExceptionSorter.java
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+package com.alibaba.druid.pool.vendor;
+
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+
+/**
+ * An interface to allow for exception evaluation.
+ */
+public interface ExceptionSorter {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true or false whether or not the exception is fatal.
+     * 
+     * @param e the exception
+     * @return true or false if the exception is fatal.
+     */
+    boolean isExceptionFatal(SQLException e);
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/alibaba/druid/pool/vendor/MySqlExceptionSorter.java b/src/main/java/com/alibaba/druid/pool/vendor/MySqlExceptionSorter.java
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+package com.alibaba.druid.pool.vendor;
+
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+
+public class MySqlExceptionSorter implements ExceptionSorter {
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isExceptionFatal(SQLException e) {
+        String state = e.getSQLState();
+        if (state != null && state.startsWith("08")) { // per Mark Matthews at MySQL
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        final int errorCode = e.getErrorCode();
+        switch (errorCode) {
+            // Communications Errors
+            case 1040: // ER_CON_COUNT_ERROR
+            case 1042: // ER_BAD_HOST_ERROR
+            case 1043: // ER_HANDSHAKE_ERROR
+            case 1047: // ER_UNKNOWN_COM_ERROR
+            case 1081: // ER_IPSOCK_ERROR
+            case 1129: // ER_HOST_IS_BLOCKED
+            case 1130: // ER_HOST_NOT_PRIVILEGED
+
+                // Authentication Errors
+            case 1045: // ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR
+
+                // Resource errors
+            case 1004: // ER_CANT_CREATE_FILE
+            case 1005: // ER_CANT_CREATE_TABLE
+            case 1015: // ER_CANT_LOCK
+            case 1021: // ER_DISK_FULL
+            case 1041: // ER_OUT_OF_RESOURCES
+
+                // Out-of-memory errors
+            case 1037: // ER_OUTOFMEMORY
+            case 1038: // ER_OUT_OF_SORTMEMORY
+                return true;
+                
+            default:
+                break;
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
+}