From: Paul DuBois Date: March 16 1999 4:43am Subject: Re: Info about retrieving in C api. Possible bug? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/301 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:37 PM -0600 3/15/1999, Paul DuBois wrote: >At 10:24 PM -0600 3/15/1999, Wade Maxfield wrote: >> If you use mysql_store_result(), you can use mysql_num_rows() and find >>out no rows were affected. >> >> However, if you use mysql_num_rows() before calling mysql_use_result() >>you get a segmentation fault. This was not mentioned in the documentation >>as causing a segmentation fault. > >No, but it does say you can't call mysql_num_rows() before calling >mysql_use_result: [passage from manual deleted] I forgot to add that, even if you use mysql_store_result(), you can't call mysql_num_row() *before* calling mysql_store_result(), either. You must call it afterward. -- Paul DuBois, paul@stripped Northern League Chronicles: http://www.snake.net/nl/ Madison Black Wolf: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois/blackwolf/