INSTALL PLUGIN

Syntax:
INSTALL PLUGIN plugin_name SONAME 'shared_library_name'

This statement installs a server plugin. It requires the INSERT
privilege for the mysql.plugin system table because it adds a row to
that table to register the plugin.

plugin_name is the name of the plugin as defined in the plugin
descriptor structure contained in the library file (see Plugin Data
Structures
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/extending-mysql/8.0/en/plugin-data-structure
s.html)). Plugin names are not case-sensitive. For maximal
compatibility, plugin names should be limited to ASCII letters, digits,
and underscore because they are used in C source files, shell command
lines, M4 and Bourne shell scripts, and SQL environments.

shared_library_name is the name of the shared library that contains the
plugin code. The name includes the file name extension (for example,
libmyplugin.so, libmyplugin.dll, or libmyplugin.dylib).

The shared library must be located in the plugin directory (the
directory named by the plugin_dir system variable). The library must be
in the plugin directory itself, not in a subdirectory. By default,
plugin_dir is the plugin directory under the directory named by the
pkglibdir configuration variable, but it can be changed by setting the
value of plugin_dir at server startup. For example, set its value in a
my.cnf file:

[mysqld]
plugin_dir=/path/to/plugin/directory

If the value of plugin_dir is a relative path name, it is taken to be
relative to the MySQL base directory (the value of the basedir system
variable).

INSTALL PLUGIN loads and initializes the plugin code to make the plugin
available for use. A plugin is initialized by executing its
initialization function, which handles any setup that the plugin must
perform before it can be used. When the server shuts down, it executes
the deinitialization function for each plugin that is loaded so that
the plugin has a chance to perform any final cleanup.

INSTALL PLUGIN also registers the plugin by adding a line that
indicates the plugin name and library file name to the mysql.plugin
system table. During the normal startup sequence, the server loads and
initializes plugins registered in mysql.plugin. This means that a
plugin is installed with INSTALL PLUGIN only once, not every time the
server starts. If the server is started with the --skip-grant-tables
option, plugins registered in the mysql.plugin table are not loaded and
are unavailable.

A plugin library can contain multiple plugins. For each of them to be
installed, use a separate INSTALL PLUGIN statement. Each statement
names a different plugin, but all of them specify the same library
name.

URL: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/install-plugin.html