MySQL Manual
9 MySQL APIs
- 9.1 MySQL C API
- 9.1.15 libmysqld, the Embedded MySQL Server Library
- 9.1.15.1 Overview of the Embedded MySQL Server Library
- 9.1.15.2 Compiling Programs with
libmysqld - 9.1.15.3 Restrictions when using the Embedded MySQL Server
- 9.1.15.4 Using Option Files with the Embedded Server
- 9.1.15.5 Things left to do in Embedded Server (TODO)
- 9.1.15.6 A Simple Embedded Server Example
- 9.1.15.7 Licensing the Embedded Server
9.1.15.3 Restrictions when using the Embedded MySQL Server
The embedded server has the following limitations:
- No support for ISAM tables. (This is mainly done to make the library smaller)
- No user defined functions (UDFs).
- No stack trace on core dump.
- No internal RAID support. (This is not normally needed as most OS has nowadays support for big files).
- You can set this up as a server or a master (no replication).
- You can't connect to the embedded server from an outside process with sockets or TCP/IP.
Some of these limitations can be changed by editing the `mysql_embed.h' include file and recompiling MySQL.
