With the changes in this commit it is possible to add and remove
MaxScale specific user variables. A MaxScale specific user variable
is a user variable that is interpreted by MaxScale and that
potentially changes the behaviour of MaxScale.
MaxScale specific user variables are of the format "@maxscale.x.y"
where "@maxscale" is a mandatory prefix, x a scope identifying the
component that handles the variable and y the component specific
variable. So, a variable might be called e.g. "@maxscale.cache.enabled".
The scope "core" is reserved (although not enforced yet) to MaxScale
itself.
The idea is that although MaxScale catches these, they are passed
through to the server. The benefit of this is that we do not need to
detect e.g. "SELECT @maxscale.cache.enabled", but can let the result
be returned from the server.
The interpretation of a provided value is handled by the component that
adds the variable. In a subsequent commit, it will be possible for a
component to reject a value, which will then cause an error to be
returned to the client.
There are 3 new functions:
- session_add_variable() using which a variable is added,
- session_remove_variable() using which a variable is removed, and
- session_set_variable_value().
The two former ones are to be called by components, the last one by
the protocol that catches the "set @maxscale..." statements.
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