Appendix F. C API Reference

This appendix describes the C language application-programming interface for the MySQL client library. The API consists of a set of functions for communicating with MySQL servers and accessing databases and a set of data types used by those functions. The client library functions can be classified into the following categories:

Connection management routines to establish and terminate connections to the server
Error-reporting routines to get error codes and messages
Query construction and execution routines to construct queries and send them to the server
Result set processing routines to handle results from queries that return data
Information routines that provide information about the client, server, protocol version, and the current connection
Administrative routines for controlling server operation
Thread routines for writing threaded clients
Routines for communicating with the embedded MySQL server, libmysqld
Debugging routines to generate debugging information
Deprecated routines that now are considered obsolete

Unless otherwise indicated, you can assume a function is present in the client library at least as far back as MySQL 3.22.0.

This appendix serves as a reference, so it includes only brief code fragments illustrating use of the client library. For complete client programs and instructions for writing them, see Chapter 6, "The MySQL C API."