From: Warren Young
Date: October 16 2008 10:39pm
Subject: Re: problem with query (execute) timeout option
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Seth Linden wrote:
> 
> Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock'

I'm guessing that by trying to set an option that only works for TCP 
sockets, you're confusing the C API, since you're apparently not 
connecting to the DB server over TCP.