Jim Winstead wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:41:23AM +1200, Frank wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> is it a desired feature that the embedded version of the client library >> still tries to create a network connection when I pass a hostname into >> connect? > > Yes, the embedded version also acts as a standard MySQL client. > >> Is it possible to influence this behaviour, so that the API just ignores >> settings like the hostname and the port and always connects to the >> embedded server? > > You can call mysql_options(mysql, MYSQL_OPT_USE_EMBEDDED_CONNECTION, 0) > after calling mysql_init() and before calling mysql_real_connect(). > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-options.html > > Jim Winstead > MySQL Inc.
Thanks for the quick reply. What I am looking for is a way of setting this globally, as the connection is created in a third party library where I can't set options. Thanks for your help, Frank -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
