mysql_thread_init(3)

🌸 mysql_thread_init(3) — bestie edition 🌸

ok so real talk, we're doing the MariaDB Connector/C manual page for mysql_thread_init, and honestly? she's a little vintage, a little deprecated, but still serving in the group chat. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

mysql_thread_init — initialize thread 🧵✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <mysql.h>

my_bool mysql_thread_init(void );

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this is the thread initialization situation for multi threaded clients. if your client is multi threaded (and if you're here, she probably is 😭), you should call mysql_thread_init() at the beginning of the thread initialization to initialize the thread specific client library variables. like, set the vibe up before anyone else walks in 🎀

and here's the tea: if you don't call mysql_thread_init() explicitly? no worries bestie, she will be called automatically by mysql_init(3) or mysql_real_connect(3). the library has your back, fr fr 🫶

✨ NOTES ✨

before a client thread ends, the mysql_thread_end(3) function must be called to release memory — otherwise the client library will report an error. 😭💀

that's not a suggestion, that's a must. memory does not clean itself up, queen. close the tab, free the RAM, keep the peace 🧚

✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

• returns zero if successful
• returns 1 if an error occurred

so basically 0 = slay, 1 = uh oh 🙈

✨ HISTORY ✨

this function is deprecated since MariaDB Connector/C 3.0.0. ⚠️

she's iconic, she's historic, she's also very much retired. still in the docs though because we respect our elders 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• mysql_thread_end(3)
• mysql_thread_safe(3)

and that's the whole page, no cap. this was pulled from Version 3.4 of the MariaDB Connector/C docs, mysql_thread_init(3), and honestly? thanks for reading the whole thing, you're the main character 🌈⭐ go call mysql_thread_end() and hydrate 💖🦋