Server Command Options Scope Global Dynamic No SET_VAR  Hint Applies No Type String This option tells the server to load the named plugins at startup. If multiple  --plugin-load  options are given, only the last one applies. Additional plugins to load may be specified using  --plugin-load-add options. The option value is a semicolon-separated list of  plugin_library  and  name = plugin_library values. Each  plugin_library  is the name of a library file that contains plugin code, and each  name is the name of a plugin to load. If a plugin library is named without any preceding plugin name, the server loads all plugins in the library. With a preceding plugin name, the server loads only the named plugin from the libary. The server looks for plugin library files in the directory named by the  plugin_dir system variable. For example, if plugins named  myplug1  and  myplug2  are contained in the plugin library files myplug1.so  and  myplug2.so , use this option to perform an early plugin load: Quotes surround the argument value because otherwise some command interpreters interpret semicolon ( ; ) as a special character. (For example, Unix shells treat it as a command terminator.) Each named plugin is loaded for a single invocation of  mysqld  only. After a restart, the plugin is not loaded unless  --plugin-load  is used again. This is in contrast to  INSTALL PLUGIN , which adds an entry to the  mysql.plugins  table to cause the plugin to be loaded for every normal server startup. During the normal startup sequence, the server determines which plugins to load by reading the mysql.plugins  system table. If the server is started with the  --skip-grant-tables  option, plugins registered in the  mysql.plugins  table are not loaded and are unavailable.  --plugin-load  enables plugins to be loaded even when  --skip-grant-tables  is given.  --plugin-load  also enables plugins to be loaded at startup that cannot be loaded at runtime. For additional information about plugin loading, see Section 5.6.1, “Installing and Uninstalling Plugins” . This option complements the  --plugin-load  option.  --plugin-load-add  adds a plugin or plugins to the set of plugins to be loaded at startup. The argument format is the same as for  --plugin-load . mysqld --plugin-load="myplug1=myplug1.so;myplug2=myplug2.so" • --plugin-load-add= plugin_list Command-Line Format --plugin-load-add=plugin_list System Variable plugin_load_add Scope Global Dynamic No SET_VAR  Hint Applies No Type String 748