MONGOC_READ_P...LENESS_SECONDS(3)

💅 MONGOC_READ_P...LENESS_SECONDS 💅

Okay bestie, so this is a libmongoc function and honestly? It's a little one-trick pony but it slays at its one trick. Sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int64_t
mongoc_read_prefs_get_max_staleness_seconds (
   const mongoc_read_prefs_t *read_prefs);

Like, that's it. That's the whole vibe. It returns an int64_t, it takes one pointer, nobody's getting hurt 😌

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• read_prefs — a mongoc_read_prefs_t. Yep. That's the whole parameter list. One (1) single read prefs struct, hand it over and let the function do its thing 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the lore, and ngl it's kinda iconic 👑

Clients estimate the staleness of each secondary — like, they're doing a little vibe check on how out-of-date each one is — and then they select for reads only those secondaries whose estimated staleness is less than or equal to maxStalenessSeconds 💖

So if a secondary is too stale? Not invited to the read party. Sorry babe 💀

And the default? The default is MONGOC_NO_MAX_STALENESS. That's the whole default. No max, no limit, no cap (literally — well, no staleness cap, which is different from the slang "no cap", but you get me 🙈).

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc — the ones who brought you the whole thing 🍓

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc. — long-running, dedicated, committed. main character energy fr fr 🌈

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✨ friendly reminder bestie: this function just gets the max staleness seconds. It doesn't set anything, it doesn't validate anything, it just reports what's there. Read the room, then read the read prefs 💅

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okay that's the page!! this was libmongoc version 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026 — go forth and get those staleness seconds, you absolute icon 🌟💖🎀