Sun Microsystems 5800 Computer Drive User Manual


 
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 eld has
changed.
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