MySQL 8 plugin API
MySQL 8 provides support for plugin API by which server components themselves can be created. The plugins can be loaded during server startup and can also be loaded and unloaded during runtime; there is no need to restart the server. The API is very generic in that it does not specify what plugins can do in terms of limitation but instead they are allowed to do more than build-in components. The API supports interfaces for components such as storage engines plugins, full-text parser plugins, server extensions and so on.
The plugin interface makes use of the plugin table in the MySQL 8 database to store the information about installed plugins permanently by using the INSTALL PLUGIN statement. During the MySQL 8 installation ...
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