MONGOC_COLLECTION_DESTROY(3)

💅 MONGOC_COLLECTION_DESTROY(3) — the libmongoc glow-up page

okay bestie, welcome to the mongoc_collection_destroy page from libmongoc's manual section 3 🎀 this is the one where we say bye-bye to a collection handle, and honestly it's giving "closing the tab after you're done" energy ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void
mongoc_collection_destroy (mongoc_collection_t *collection);

🌸 PARAMETERS 🌸

• collection: A mongoc_collection_t. that's it, that's the whole parameter list, she's simple and she knows it 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

kay so here's the tea: this function shall destroy a mongoc_collection_t and its associated resources. like, full cleanup, everything tied to that collection gets taken out with it 🔥

and the iconique part? it does nothing if collection is NULL. no crash, no drama, no cap — it just vibes and returns 💀✨

⚠️ WARNING, and I need you to actually read this one: Always destroy a mongoc_cursor_t created from a collection before destroying the collection. the way that cursors outlive their collection is literally a hazard 😭 clean up your cursors first, periodt.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc — yes, the MongoDB girlies themselves wrote this 🧚

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc. 📜

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and that's the whole page, diva! 💖 this gorgeous little manpage is from libmongoc 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026 — so go forth, destroy your collections responsibly, and remember: cursors first, collection second, always 🎀🦋🌸