Extending Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Introduction

For a comprehensive list of new database server features, see the release notes. This section lists new features relevant to this manual. These features fall into the following areas:

• Extensibility enhancements
• Performance improvements

This manual describes the following extensibility enhancements to Version 9.2 of Dynamic Server:

• Enhancements to user-defined routines (UDRs):
• GRANT/REVOKE on UDR external languages
• ALTER ROUTINE statement
• User-defined aggregates

• Connectivity: Client interfaces (ESQL/C, Informix ODBC Driver, C++, Java, JDBC, GLS) supported in a single package

This manual describes the following performance improvements to Version 9.2 of Dynamic Server for user-defined routines:

• Expensive-function optimization
• Parallel UDRs
• User-defined statistics routines