Sun Microsystems Sun StorageTek 5800 - Manual (Page 15)

Sun StorageTek 5800 System Client API
The Sun TM StorageTek TM 5800 system client API provides programmatic access to a 5800 system
server to store, retrieve, query, and delete object data and metadata. Synchronous versions are
provided in C and Java
TM languages. A future release will implement a non-blocking C API for
use with POSIX operations.
This chapter provides a summary of the changes for the Sun StorageTek 5800 System 1.1
release, and overviews of the client APIs and query language.
The following topics are discussed:
■ “Changes in Version 1.1” on page 15
■ “5800 System Overview” on page 16
Changes in Version 1.1
The following general changes have been made in Version 1.1.
■ Handling is added for storing, retrieving, and querying the following metadata types:
– char — for Latin 1 character set
– string — for Unicode character set
– binary
– date
– time
– timestamp
■ Query and queryplus are merged.
■ Prepared statements (pstmts) are introduced to handle the values of queries that cannot be
placed inline, and a new query is introduced to handle them.
■ The handling of strings that are longer than the string length of the associated field has
changed.
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