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MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development

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MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development

Overview of this book

MySQL has introduced a Plugin API with its latest version – a robust, powerful, and easy way of extending the server functionality with loadable modules on the fly. But until now anyone wishing to develop a plugin would almost certainly need to dig into the MySQL source code and search the Web for missing bits of the information.This is the first book on the MySQL Plugin API. Written together with one of the Plugin API primary architects, it contains all the details you need to build a plugin. It shows what a plugin should contain and how to compile, install, and package it. Every chapter illustrates the material with thoroughly explained source code examples.Starting from the basic features, common to all plugin types, and the structure of the plugin framework, this book will guide you through the different plugin types, from simple examples to advanced ones. Server monitoring, full-text search in JPEG comments, typo-tolerant searches, getting the list of all user variables, system usage statistics, or a complete storage engine with indexes – these and other plugins are developed in different chapters of this book, demonstrating the power and versatility of the MySQL Plugin API and explaining the intricate details of MySQL Plugin programming.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

Further reading


There is a UDF repository run by Roland Bouman that contains various useful functions in both source and binary forms. This can be found at http://www.mysqludf.org/.

To make the UDF API even easier to use, Hartmut Holzgraefe, a MySQL Support Manager at Sun Microsystems, has created a UDF generator. This generates the source code for you based on an XML description of what the UDF should do. More information on this can be found at its PECL site at: http://pear.php.net/package/CodeGen_MySQL_UDF/