MONGOC_BULKWRI...YOPTS_SET_HINT(3)

💅 mongoc_bulkwrite_updatemanyopts_set_hint(3) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to libmongoc — yes, the C driver, yes we're doing this, and yes you're gonna slay it. this page is all about mongoc_bulkwrite_updatemanyopts_set_hint, which is a tiny little setter with main character energy. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void
mongoc_bulkwrite_updatemanyopts_set_hint (mongoc_bulkwrite_updatemanyopts_t *self, const bson_value_t *hint);

that's the whole vibe: no return value, just void, because this function is too iconic to hand anything back. it takes self (your update-many options, the star of the show 💖) and hint (a const bson_value_t *, the supporting cast member doing the actual work).

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this is the "tell the server which index to use, bestie" function. literally its whole job. 💅

you call it to specify the index to use. and because the universe loves options, you get two adorable ways to say it:

• pass the index name as a string 🎀
• or pass the index key pattern 🦋

and here's the part that actually matters, no cap: if specified, then the query system will only consider plans using the hinted index. only that one. not the others. the others are not invited to the party 🚫✨

ngl, this is a hint and not a command, but the query planner takes it very seriously — it will only consider plans that use the hinted index once you've set one. that's exactly what the page says and i'm not making it up, promise 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc

(actual legends, fr fr 🐐)

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc.

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓✨ — and for the sign-off, the credit where it's due: this is libmongoc version 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 202… which is where the header ran into the footer and cut the poor thing off 😭 (you've seen the last line, you know the vibe — the date just ran out of runway). love that for us. bye bestie, go hint some indexes 💜🦋