Version from the plugin's general type descriptor.
PLUGIN_STATUS
Plugin status, one of ACTIVE, INACTIVE, DISABLED or DELETED.
PLUGIN_TYPE
Plugin type; STORAGE ENGINE, INFORMATION_SCHEMA, AUTHENTICATION, REPLICATION, DAEMON or AUDIT.
PLUGIN_TYPE_VERSION
Version from the plugin's type-specific descriptor.
PLUGIN_LIBRARY
Plugin's shared object file name, located in the directory specified by the plugin_dir system variable, and used by the INSTALL PLUGIN and UNINSTALL PLUGIN statements. NULL if the plugin is complied in and cannot be uninstalled.
PLUGIN_LIBRARY_VERSION
Version from the plugin's API interface.
PLUGIN_AUTHOR
Author of the plugin.
PLUGIN_DESCRIPTION
Description.
PLUGIN_LICENSE
Plugin's licence.
LOAD_OPTION
How the plugin was loaded; one of OFF, ON, FORCE or FORCE_PLUS_PERMANENT. See Installing Plugins.
PLUGIN_MATURITY
Plugin's maturity level; one of Unknown, Experimental, Alpha, Beta,'Gamma, and Stable.
PLUGIN_AUTH_VERSION
Plugin's version as determined by the plugin author. An example would be '0.99 beta 1'.
It provides a superset of the information shown by the SHOW PLUGINS statement. For specific information about storage engines (a particular type of plugins), see the information_schema.ENGINES table and the SHOW ENGINES statement.
This table provides a subset of the Information Schema information_schema.ALL_PLUGINS table, which contains all available plugins, installed or not.
The table is not a standard Information Schema table, and is a MariaDB extension.
Examples
The easiest way to get basic information on plugins is withSHOW PLUGINS:
SHOW PLUGINS;
+----------------------------+----------+--------------------+-------------+---------+
| Name | Status | Type | Library | License |
+----------------------------+----------+--------------------+-------------+---------+
| binlog | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| mysql_native_password | ACTIVE | AUTHENTICATION | NULL | GPL |
| mysql_old_password | ACTIVE | AUTHENTICATION | NULL | GPL |
| MRG_MyISAM | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| MyISAM | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| CSV | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| MEMORY | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| FEDERATED | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| Aria | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| InnoDB | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_TRX | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_LOCKS | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_LOCK_WAITS | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_CMP | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_CMP_RESET | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_CMPMEM | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_METRICS | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_FT_DEFAULT_STOPWORD | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_FT_INSERTED | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_FT_DELETED | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_FT_BEING_DELETED | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_FT_CONFIG | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_FT_INDEX_CACHE | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_FT_INDEX_TABLE | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_SYS_TABLES | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_SYS_TABLESTATS | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_SYS_INDEXES | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_SYS_COLUMNS | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_SYS_FIELDS | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN_COLS | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| SPHINX | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| ARCHIVE | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| BLACKHOLE | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| FEEDBACK | DISABLED | INFORMATION SCHEMA | NULL | GPL |
| partition | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | NULL | GPL |
| pam | ACTIVE | AUTHENTICATION | auth_pam.so | GPL |
+----------------------------+----------+--------------------+-------------+---------+
SELECT LOAD_OPTION
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PLUGINS
WHERE PLUGIN_NAME LIKE 'tokudb';
Empty set
