mysql_plugin - Man Page

configure MariaDB server plugins (mysql_plugin is now a symlink to mariadb-plugin)

Synopsis

mysql_plugin [options] plugin {ENABLE|DISABLE}

Description

The mysql_plugin utility enables MariaDB administrators to manage which plugins a MariaDB server loads. It provides an alternative to manually specifying the --plugin-load option at server startup or using the INSTALL PLUGIN and UNINSTALL PLUGIN statements at runtime.

Depending on whether mysql_plugin is invoked to enable or disable plugins, it inserts or deletes rows in the mysql.plugin table that serves as a plugin registry. (To perform this operation, mysql_plugin invokes the MariaDB server in bootstrap mode. This means that the server must not already be running.) For normal server startups, the server loads and enables plugins listed in mysql.plugin automatically. For additional control over plugin activation, use --plugin_name options named for specific plugins.

Each invocation of mysql_plugin reads a configuration file to determine how to configure the plugins contained in a single plugin library object file. To invoke mysql_plugin, use this syntax:

mysql_plugin [options] plugin {ENABLE|DISABLE}

plugin is the name of the plugin to configure. ENABLE or DISABLE (not case sensitive) specify whether to enable or disable components of the plugin library named in the configuration file. The order of the plugin and ENABLE or DISABLE arguments does not matter.

For example, to configure components of a plugin library file named myplugins.so on Linux or myplugins.dll on Windows, specify a plugin value of myplugins. Suppose that this plugin library contains three plugins, plugin1, plugin2, and plugin3, all of which should be configured under mysql_plugin control. By convention, configuration files have a suffix of .ini and the same basename as the plugin library, so the default configuration file name for this plugin library is myplugins.ini. The configuration file contents look like this:

myplugins
plugin1
plugin2
plugin3

The first line in the myplugins.ini file is the name of the library object file, without any extension such as .so or .dll. The remaining lines are the names of the components to be enabled or disabled. Each value in the file should be on a separate line. Lines on which the first character is '#' are taken as comments and ignored.

To enable the plugins listed in the configuration file, invoke mysql_plugin this way:

shell> mysql_plugin myplugins ENABLE

To disable the plugins, use DISABLE rather than ENABLE.

An error occurs if mysql_plugin cannot find the configuration file or plugin library file, or if mysql_plugin cannot start the MariaDB server.

mysql_plugin supports the following options, which can be specified on the command line or in the [mysqld] group of any option file. For options specified in a [mysqld] group, mysql_plugin recognizes the --basedir, --datadir, and --plugin-dir options and ignores others.

mysql_plugin Options

See Also

For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Knowledge Base, available online at https://mariadb.com/kb/

Author

MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).

Referenced By

The man page mariadb-plugin(1) is an alias of mysql_plugin(1).

15 May 2020 MariaDB 10.11 MariaDB Database System