Server Command Options 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 early for a single invocation of  mysqld  only. After a restart, the plugin is not loaded early unless  --early-plugin-load  is used again. If the server is started using  --initialize  or  --initialize-insecure , plugins specified by  -- early-plugin-load  are not loaded. If the server is run with  --help , plugins specified by  --early-plugin-load  are loaded but not initialized. This behavior ensures that plugin options are displayed in the help message. InnoDB  tablespace encryption relies on the MySQL Keyring for encryption key management, and the keyring plugin to be used must be loaded prior to storage engine initialization to facilitate  InnoDB recovery for encrypted tables. For example, administrators who want the  keyring_file  plugin loaded at startup should use  --early-plugin-load  with the appropriate option value (such as keyring_file.so  on Unix and Unix-like systems or  keyring_file.dll  on Windows). For information about  InnoDB  tablespace encryption, see Section 15.13, “InnoDB Data-at-Rest Encryption” . For general information about plugin loading, see Section 5.6.1, “Installing and Uninstalling Plugins” . For MySQL Keyring, this option is used only when the keystore is managed with a keyring plugin. If keystore management uses a keyring component rather than a plugin, specify component loading using a manifest file; see Section 6.4.4.2, “Keyring Component Installation” . Note • --exit-info[= flags ] ,  -T [ flags ] • --external-locking Command-Line Format --exit-info[=flags] Type Integer Command-Line Format --external-locking[={OFF|ON}] Type Boolean This is a bitmask of different flags that you can use for debugging the  mysqld  server. Do not use this option unless you know  exactly  what it does! 739 mysqld --early-plugin-load="myplug1=myplug1.so;myplug2=myplug2.so"