G. 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 group into these categories:

• Routines to initialize and terminate the client library

• Connection management routines to establish and terminate connections to the server

• Error-reporting routines to get error codes and messages

• Routines to construct SQL statements and send them to the server

• Result set processing routines to handle results from statements that return data

• Routines to process multiple result sets

• Routines that provide information ...

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