I was not able to load a function in udf_example.so. The response to CREATE FUNCTION metaphon RETURNS STRING SONAME 'udf_example.so';
is Error Code: 1126. Can't open shared library 'udf_example.so' (errno: 0 /usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/udf_example.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) I did follow instructions 1. compile udf_example.so with gcc -fPIC -I/usr/include/mysql/ -shared -o udf_example.so udf_example.c 2. verify my plugin directory: show variables like 'plugin%' : /usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/ 3. place udf_example.so in /usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/ 4. verify I have a table mysql.func and a column 'type': SELECT * FROM mysql.func; Any hints? Thank you.