This section describes how to install MySQL Enterprise Thread Pool. For general information about installing plugins, see Section 5.5.2, “Installing and Uninstalling Plugins”.

To be usable by the server, the plugin library file must be located in the MySQL plugin directory (the directory named by the plugin_dir system variable). If necessary, set the value of plugin_dir at server startup to tell the server the plugin directory location.

The plugin library file base name is thread_pool. The file name suffix differs per platform (for example, .so for Unix and Unix-like systems, .dll for Windows).

To enable thread pool capability, load the plugins to be used by starting the server with the --plugin-load option. For example, if you name just the plugin library file, the server loads all plugins that it contains (that is, the thread pool plugin and all the INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables). To do this, put these lines in your my.cnf file (adjust the .so suffix for your platform as necessary):

[mysqld]
plugin-load=thread_pool.so

That is equivalent to loading all thread pool plugins by naming them individually:

[mysqld]
plugin-load=thread_pool=thread_pool.so;tp_thread_state=thread_pool.so;tp_thread_group_state=thread_pool.so;tp_thread_group_stats=thread_pool.so

With --plugin-load, all plugins must be named on a single line. To make the option file easier to read, use --plugin-load-add, which enables naming plugins individually:

[mysqld]
plugin-load-add=thread_pool=thread_pool.so
plugin-load-add=tp_thread_state=thread_pool.so
plugin-load-add=tp_thread_group_state=thread_pool.so
plugin-load-add=tp_thread_group_stats=thread_pool.so

If desired, you can load individual plugins from the library file. To load the thread pool plugin but not the INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables, use an option like this:

[mysqld]
plugin-load=thread_pool=thread_pool.so

To load the thread pool plugin and only the TP_THREAD_STATE INFORMATION_SCHEMA table, use an option like this:

[mysqld]
plugin-load=thread_pool=thread_pool.so;tp_thread_state=thread_pool.so

To verify plugin installation, examine the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PLUGINS table or use the SHOW PLUGINS statement (see Section 5.5.3, “Obtaining Server Plugin Information”). For example:

mysql> SELECT PLUGIN_NAME, PLUGIN_STATUS FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PLUGINS
    -> WHERE PLUGIN_NAME LIKE 'thread%' OR PLUGIN_NAME LIKE 'tp%';
+-----------------------+---------------+
| PLUGIN_NAME           | PLUGIN_STATUS |
+-----------------------+---------------+
| thread_pool           | ACTIVE        |
| TP_THREAD_STATE       | ACTIVE        |
| TP_THREAD_GROUP_STATE | ACTIVE        |
| TP_THREAD_GROUP_STATS | ACTIVE        |
+-----------------------+---------------+

If the server loads the thread pool plugin successfully, it sets the thread_handling system variable to dynamically-loaded. If the plugin fails to load, the server writes a message to the error log.