With MySQL Shell 8.0.17, a super cool new feature was released: the MySQL Shell Extensions & Plugins !
You will be able to write your own extensions for the MySQL Shell. You may already saw that I’ve written some modules like Innotop or mydba for MySQL Shell.
However those plugins were written in Python and only accessible in Python mode. With the new Shell Extensions Infrastructure, this is not the case anymore.
Also, this allows you to populate the help automatically.
Extensions are available from the extglobal object.
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