MONGOC_DATABASE_T(3)

🌸 MongoDB Database Abstraction 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the libmongoc manual page for MONGOC_DATABASE_T(3) — yes that's the whole vibe, we're talking about databases today and it's gonna slay 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

typedef struct _mongoc_database_t mongoc_database_t;

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🦋 so what even IS this 🦋

mongoc_database_t is your little handle for getting at a MongoDB database, periodt. Like, it's the thing you hold onto when you wanna do stuff to one specific database object — actions on a particular database, that's her whole job 💖

important vibe check: this is not a container for mongoc_collection_t structures. nope nope nope, she does not hold your collections, don't come for her like that 🙈

and here's the part where she's lowkey a nepo baby: read preferences and write concerns are inherited from the parent client 👑 but if you wanna do your own thing, you can absolutely override them with:

• mongoc_database_set_read_prefs()
• mongoc_database_set_write_concern()

main character energy, honestly ✨

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💜 EXAMPLES 💜

here's the whole little program, copy it exactly bestie, no cap:

#include <mongoc/mongoc.h>

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
   mongoc_database_t *database;
   mongoc_client_t *client;

   mongoc_init ();

   client = mongoc_client_new ("mongodb://localhost/");
   database = mongoc_client_get_database (client, "test");

   mongoc_database_destroy (database);
   mongoc_client_destroy (client);

   mongoc_cleanup ();

   return 0;
}

look at that cleanup order though — mongoc_database_destroy() then mongoc_client_destroy() then mongoc_cleanup(). the way that's just correct 😭🫶

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

MongoDB, Inc — yeah, the MongoDB girlies themselves wrote this 💅

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc. 🦋

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and that's the page!! mwah 💖 this was MONGOC_DATABASE_T(3) from the libmongoc collection, version 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026 — screenshot it, cite it, love it, go build something iconic 🔥👑