Re: Configuration interface of pluggable storage engines

[Paul McCullagh]

On Nov 27, 2006, at 6:53 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:

>>
>> 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?
>
> I hacked it with a MyISAM table and using calls to the handler
> directly...
>
> otherwise - if you have "tables" you want to be discovered, there's  
> the
> ha_create_table_from_engine (IIRC that's what it's called) that NDB  
> uses
> for table discovery that could also be used for an engine providing
> virtual tables (e.g. perf metrics etc)

I see, this adds some interesting possibilities...