## Name

glCreateQueries — create query objects

## C Specification

`void glCreateQueries(` | GLenum target,
| GLsizei n,
| GLuint *ids`)`;

## Parameters

`target`

  Specifies the target of each created query object.

`n`

  Number of query objects to create.

`ids`

  Specifies an array in which names of the new query objects are stored.

## Description

`glCreateQueries` returns `n` previously unused query object names in `ids`, each representing a new query object with the specified `target`.

`target` may be one of `GL_SAMPLES_PASSED`, `GL_ANY_SAMPLES_PASSED`, `GL_ANY_SAMPLES_PASSED_CONSERVATIVE`, `GL_TIME_ELAPSED`, `GL_TIMESTAMP`, `GL_PRIMITIVES_GENERATED` or `GL_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_PRIMITIVES_WRITTEN`.

## Errors

`GL_INVALID_ENUM` is generated if `target` is not an accepted value.

`GL_INVALID_VALUE` is generated if `n` is negative.

## Version Support

| OpenGL Version
--- | ---
Function / Feature Name | 2.0 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5
`glCreateQueries` | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✔

## See Also

glBeginQuery, glBeginQueryIndexed, glDeleteQueries, glEndQuery, glGenQueries, glGetQueryObject, glGetQueryiv, glIsQuery

## Copyright

Copyright © 2014 Khronos Group. This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. http://opencontent.org/openpub/.