@@ -39,8+39,11 @@ recommended that you operate directly against the structure.
Nearly all functions return a \ ``memcached_return_t``\ value.
This value can be translated to a printable string with memcached_strerror(3).
Nearly all functions return a \ ``memcached_return_t``\ value.
This value can be translated to a printable string with memcached_strerror(3).
-Partitioning based on keys is testsed in the library. Using the key partioning
-functions it is possible to group sets of object onto servers.
+Objects are stored on servers by hashing keys. The hash value maps the key to a particular server. All clients understand how this hashing works, so it is possibly to reliably both push data to a server and retrieve data from a server.
+
+Group keys can be optionally used to group sets of objects with servers.
+
+Namespaces are supported, and can be used to partition caches so that multiple applications can use the same memcached servers.
\ ``memcached_st``\ structures are thread-safe, but each thread must
contain its own structure (that is, if you want to share these among
\ ``memcached_st``\ structures are thread-safe, but each thread must
contain its own structure (that is, if you want to share these among
@@ -60,8+60,11 @@ recommended that you operate directly against the structure.
Nearly all functions return a \fBmemcached_return_t\fP value.
This value can be translated to a printable string with memcached_strerror(3).
.sp
Nearly all functions return a \fBmemcached_return_t\fP value.
This value can be translated to a printable string with memcached_strerror(3).
.sp
-Partitioning based on keys is testsed in the library. Using the key partioning
-functions it is possible to group sets of object onto servers.
+Objects are stored on servers by hashing keys. The hash value maps the key to a particular server. All clients understand how this hashing works, so it is possibly to reliably both push data to a server and retrieve data from a server.
+.sp
+Group keys can be optionally used to group sets of objects with servers.
+.sp
+Namespaces are supported, and can be used to partition caches so that multiple applications can use the same memcached servers.
.sp
\fBmemcached_st\fP structures are thread\-safe, but each thread must
contain its own structure (that is, if you want to share these among
.sp
\fBmemcached_st\fP structures are thread\-safe, but each thread must
contain its own structure (that is, if you want to share these among