5.5.5.2 Installing or Uninstalling Version Tokens

Note

If installed, Version Tokens involves some overhead. To avoid this overhead, do not install it unless you plan to use it.

This section describes how to install or uninstall Version Tokens, which is implemented in a plugin library file containing a plugin and loadable functions. For general information about installing or uninstalling plugins and loadable functions, see Section 5.5.1, “Installing and Uninstalling Plugins”, and Section 5.6.1, “Installing and Uninstalling Loadable Functions”.

To be usable by the server, the plugin library file must be located in the MySQL plugin directory (the directory named by the plugin_dir system variable). If necessary, configure the plugin directory location by setting the value of plugin_dir at server startup.

The plugin library file base name is version_tokens. The file name suffix differs per platform (for example, .so for Unix and Unix-like systems, .dll for Windows).

To install the Version Tokens plugin and functions, use the INSTALL PLUGIN and CREATE FUNCTION statements, adjusting the .so suffix for your platform as necessary:

INSTALL PLUGIN version_tokens SONAME 'version_token.so';
CREATE FUNCTION version_tokens_set RETURNS STRING
  SONAME 'version_token.so';
CREATE FUNCTION version_tokens_show RETURNS STRING
  SONAME 'version_token.so';
CREATE FUNCTION version_tokens_edit RETURNS STRING
  SONAME 'version_token.so';
CREATE FUNCTION version_tokens_delete RETURNS STRING
  SONAME 'version_token.so';
CREATE FUNCTION version_tokens_lock_shared RETURNS INT
  SONAME 'version_token.so';
CREATE FUNCTION version_tokens_lock_exclusive RETURNS INT
  SONAME 'version_token.so';
CREATE FUNCTION version_tokens_unlock RETURNS INT
  SONAME 'version_token.so';

You must install the functions to manage the server's version token list, but you must also install the plugin because the functions do not work correctly without it.

If the plugin and functions are used on a replication source server, install them on all replica servers as well to avoid replication problems.

Once installed as just described, the plugin and functions remain installed until uninstalled. To remove them, use the UNINSTALL PLUGIN and DROP FUNCTION statements:

UNINSTALL PLUGIN version_tokens;
DROP FUNCTION version_tokens_set;
DROP FUNCTION version_tokens_show;
DROP FUNCTION version_tokens_edit;
DROP FUNCTION version_tokens_delete;
DROP FUNCTION version_tokens_lock_shared;
DROP FUNCTION version_tokens_lock_exclusive;
DROP FUNCTION version_tokens_unlock;