MySQL/OTP – MySQL client library for Erlang/OTP
Copyright (C) 2014 Viktor Söderqvist

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@title MySQL/OTP User's Guide
@doc
MySQL/OTP is a driver for connecting Erlang/OTP applications to MySQL
databases. It is a native implementation of the MySQL protocol in Erlang.

This is the documentation generated from the Erlang source code using EDoc.
The project page is on Github:
<a href="https://github.com/mysql-otp/mysql-otp/"
   target="_top">https://github.com/mysql-otp/mysql-otp/</a>.

For the reference manual see the <a href="mysql.html">mysql</a> module.

<h2 id="value-representation">Value representation</h2>

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>MySQL</th>
      <th>Erlang</th>
      <th>Example</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>INT, TINYINT, etc.</td>
      <td>`integer()'</td>
      <td>`42'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>VARCHAR, TEXT, etc.</td>
      <td>`unicode:chardata()' [<a href="#vn1">1</a>]</td>
      <td>`<<"foo">>', `"bar"'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>VARBINARY, BLOB, etc.</td>
      <td>`binary()'</td>
      <td>`<<1, 2, 3, 4>>'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>BIT(N)</td>
      <td>`<<_:N/bitstring>>'</td>
      <td>`<<255, 6:3>>'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>FLOAT, DOUBLE</td>
      <td>`float()'</td>
      <td>`3.14'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>DECIMAL(P, S)</td>
      <td>`integer()' when S == 0<br />
          `float()' when P =&lt; 15 and S &gt; 0<br />
          `binary()' when P &gt;= 16 and S &gt; 0 [<a href="#vn2">2</a>]</td>
      <td>`42'<br />`3.14'<br />`<<"3.14159265358979323846">>'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>DATETIME, TIMESTAMP</td>
      <td>`calendar:datetime()' [<a href="#vn3">3</a>]</td>
      <td>`{{2014, 11, 18}, {10, 22, 36}}'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>DATE</td>
      <td>`calendar:date()'</td>
      <td>`{2014, 11, 18}'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>TIME</td>
      <td>`{Days, calendar:time()}' [<a href="#vn3">3</a>,
          <a href="#vn4">4</a>]</td>
      <td>`{0, {10, 22, 36}}'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>NULL</td>
      <td>`null'</td>
      <td>`null'</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Notes:

<ol>
  <li id="vn1">When fetching VARCHAR, TEXT etc. they are returned as `binary()'.
    When sending (insert or update) any `unicode:chardata()' is accepted as
    input. In a (possibly deep) list of integers and binaries, the integers are
    treated as Unicode codepoints while binaries are treated as UTF-8 encoded
    Unicode data. For lists, an error occurs if you try to send invalid Unicode
    data, but if the input is a pure binary, no validation will be done. This is
    to allow sending binary non-Unicode data for MySQL's binary strings (BLOB,
    VARBINARY, etc.).</li>
  <li id="vn2">DECIMALs are returned as `integer()' or `float()' when the value
    can be represented without precision loss and as `binary()' for high
    precision DECIMAL values. This is similar to how the `odbc' OTP application
    treats DECIMALs.</li>
  <li id="vn3">For `DATETIME', `TIMESTAMP' and `TIME' values with franctions of
    seconds, we use a float for the seconds part. (These are unusual and were
    added to MySQL in version 5.6.4.)</li>
  <li id="vn4">Since `TIME' can be outside the `calendar:time()' interval, we use
    the format as returned by `calendar:seconds_to_daystime/1' for `TIME'
    values.</li>
</ol>

<h2>Copying</h2>

Copyright 2014 The authors of MySQL/OTP. See the project page at
<a href="https://github.com/mysql-otp/mysql-otp"
   target="_top">https://github.com/mysql-otp/mysql-otp</a>.

This library is free software licensed under the GNU LGPL which allows you to
use it in proprietary applications as well as free software applications with
other licenses. This documentation is generated from the source code and thus
goes under the same license as the library itself.