This is an idea of a plugin that loads other plugins. There can be many loaders installed at the same time - on INSTALL PLUGIN the server will try them all sequentially until the first success. The loader is given the file name (soname) and plugin name and returns the corresponding plugin structure that MySQL can work with. Possible use cases - loading plugins with old incompatible API versions (currently it's done in the server), providing interface to scripting languages (plugins in perl, python, etc).
Lead Architect updated: -> Sergei Architecture Review updated: -> Sergei
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Supervisor updated: -> Igor