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

  • double

  • long

• 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.

  In 5800 system version 1.1, an attempt to store a value that is longer than the associated field generates an immediate error.