Changes for This Release

This release of the synchronous C API contains the following changes:

• Handling is added for storing, retrieving and querying the following new metadata types:

  • unicode

  • binary

  • date

  • time

  • timestamp

  Query and queryplus are merged

• Prepared statements (pstmts) are introduced to handle values of queries that cannot be placed inline, and a new query is introduced to handle them.

• The following new functions have been added to the API:

  • hc_check_indexed_ez

  • hc_decode_hcerr

  • hc_decode_hc_type

  • hc_schema_get_length

  • hc_nvr_add_binary

  • hc_nvr_add_date

  • hc_nvr_add_time

  • hc_nvr_add_timestamp

  • hc_nvr_get_binary

  • hc_nvr_get_date

  • hc_nvr_get_time

  • hc_nvr_get_timestamp

  • hc_pstmt_create

  • hc_pstmt_free

  • hc_pstmt_set_string

  • hc_pstmt_set_char

  • hc_pstmt_set_double

  • hc_pstmt_set_long

  • hc_pstmt_set_date

  • hc_pstmt_set_time

  • hc_pstmt_set_timestamp

  • hc_pstmt_set_binary

  • hc_pstmt_query_ez

  • hc_qrs_is_query_complete

  • hc_qrs_get_query_integrity_time

  The following functions have changed in the API:

  • hc_query_ez

  • hc_qrs_next_ez

  The following functions and types have been removed from the API:

  • hc_query_plus_result_set_t

  • hc_query_plus_ez

  • hc_qprs_next_ez

  • hc_qprs_free