MySQL 9.3 C API Developer Guide / ... / C API Basic Interface / C API Basic Function Descriptions / mysql_row_seek()
MYSQL_ROW_OFFSETmysql_row_seek(MYSQL_RES *result, MYSQL_ROW_OFFSET offset) Sets the row cursor to an arbitrary row in a query result set. Theoffset value is a row offset, typically a value returned frommysql_row_tell() or frommysql_row_seek(). This value is not a row number; to seek to a row within a result set by number, usemysql_data_seek() instead.
This function requires that the result set structure contains the entire result of the query, somysql_row_seek() may be used only in conjunction withmysql_store_result(), not withmysql_use_result().
The previous value of the row cursor. This value may be passed to a subsequent call tomysql_row_seek().