odbx_column_name(3)

💅 odbx_column_name(3) — like, the OpenDBX girlies' guide to column names ✨

okay bestie, so this is odbx_column_name(3) from OpenDBX, and honestly? it's giving "small function, big responsibility" 🎀 because it's literally how you find out what a column in your result set is called. no cap.

---

🌸 NAME 🌸

odbx_column_name — gets the name of a column in the current result set 🫶 like it literally fetches the label, periodt.

---

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <opendbx/api.h>

char* odbx_column_name (odbx_result_t* result, unsigned long pos);

that's it. two args, one pointer, so clean. 👑

---

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so odbx_column_name() grabs the name of the column you point at with pos, inside the current result set that odbx_result() handed you. and ngl, that's the whole vibe 💖

the column names will not change within the result set — with one exception, and it's the MySQL situation described over in odbx_column_count(), which happens when the first result set wasn't retrieved completely before odbx_result() was called again. so like, lowkey mind the edge case, iykyk 🌈

the result parameter you pass in has to be a valid result set returned by odbx_result(), and it must not have been fed to odbx_result_finish() before. like don't hand it a dead result, bestie, that's not the move 😭

and the valid column indices for the column you're requesting via pos start at zero and end with the value returned by odbx_column_count() minus one. zero-indexed, classic. 0 through count - 1, no skipping, no vibing outside the range 🙈

---

💖 RETURN VALUE 💖

what you get back is a pointer to a zero terminated string containing the name of the requested column. iconic. ✨

heads up though — this pointer is allocated by the database client library, so the application must not free it. not yours, don't touch. 🙅‍♀️

also, the content of the string may be overwritten by the next call to odbx_column_name(). so if you need to keep it around, copy it first, fr fr. 💀

---

🍓 ERRORS 🍓

errors can happen if:

• the given result parameter is NULL or invalid 😬
• the value of pos is out of range — i.e. more than odbx_column_count() minus one 🚨

so yeah, vibe check your inputs before you call this. 🔥

---

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• odbx_column_count()
• odbx_column_type()
• odbx_result()

go read those too, they're all part of the same squad 💜

---

and that's the page, bestie!! 🎀 this lil masterpiece is from OpenDBX, dated 6 February 2026 — and yeah, that's the same odbx_column_name(3) header you saw at the top, we just folded it in all cute. slay, bye! 💅✨🦋