C API Functions

The client library functions may be classified into the following categories:

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

  • Status and 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

  • Administration routines for controlling server operation

  • Debugging routines to generate debugging information

  • Deprecated routines that now are considered obsolete

Client library functions within each of these categories are described ...

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