Re: Configuration interface of pluggable storage engines

[Paul McCullagh]

On Nov 22, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Stewart Smith wrote:

> I'm also waiting for it in my work to make NDB pluggable. We have  
> quite
> a lot of options that can be specified on command line/my.cnf for NDB.
>
> As a temporary gross hack, I've put the configuration options into a
> table.

Do you mean like a virtual table?

I'm just wondering if there is a way an engine can generate tables  
that are available by default?

>
> Of course, I haven't managed to get it all linking successfully  
> yet*, so
> I can't tell you if it works or not :)
>
> [*] various libtool and automake foo seem to be slightly akin to  
> finely
> chopping onions with a really sharp knife - blindfolded and drunk;
> perhaps i'm just not too knowledgable there though :)

I know exactly what you mean! But a pluggable NDB should be worth the  
effort!

Regards,

Paul