Iterate query and delete rows
Posted by: Theme Park
Date: September 03, 2016 10:20AM

I am developing a program using the C api. I need to execute a SELECT query, iterate through each row, and delete some of the rows.

I couldn't find a way to directly delete the current row, so I'll have to issue a DELETE query, and the SELECT query is too big to fit in memory so I have to use mysql_use_result.

Part of my code is as follows:
while ((row = mysql_fetch_row(result))) {
...
sprintf(sql, "DELETE FROM %s WHERE id=%s", table, row[0]);
mysql_query(conn, sql);
}

But that gives me the error "Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now". So how can I iterate through the SELECT, one row at a time and then possibly delete that row, without having to store the entire result set in memory first?

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