Chapter 5 C API Basic Interface

5.1 Overview of the C API Basic Interface
5.2 C API Basic Data Structures
5.3 C API Basic Function Reference
5.4 C API Basic Function Descriptions

This chapter describes the set of MySQL C API “basic” interface. For the most part, this interface comprises the original set of C API data structures and functions to handle client/server interaction, before others were invented for more specialized purposes (such as prepared-statement handling). Other chapters describe more those more specialized data structures and functions.