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13.1.2. Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture

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13.1.2.1. Plugging in a Storage Engine
13.1.2.2. Unplugging a Storage Engine
13.1.2.3. Security Implications of Pluggable Storage

With MySQL 5.1, MySQL AB has introduced a new pluggable storage engine architecture that allows storage engines to be loaded into and unloaded from a running MySQL server.


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Posted by Andris Kardos on February 17 2007 5:35pm[Delete] [Edit]

Would be nice to add a section on pointers to how to develop storage engines, how they share their work with the server, what functionality they have to implement, etc.

Posted by Robert Dempsey on August 14 2008 1:57pm[Delete] [Edit]

To use the example plugin the correct INSTALL syntax is:
INSTALL PLUGIN example SONAME 'ha_example.so';

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