Installing and enabling both master and slave semisynchronous plugins on same server

Question

I want to run a semisynchronous replication setup, and for simplicity I'd like to not have to INSTALL and UNINSTALL plugins when a slave is promoted to a master. So I'm wondering if I'll experience any problems having both master and slave plugins installed and enabled (see here)

It looks like after installing the second plugin, both variables rpl_semi_sync_master_enabled and rpl_semi_sync_slave_enabled are reset to off (the non-default). When I include these lines in my.cnf:

loose-rpl_semi_sync_master_enabled = 1
loose-rpl_semi_sync_slave_enabled = 1

...and restart MySQL, both plugins are loaded and enabled.

Is this going to cause any problems for me?

Answer 1

This will not cause any problems. I have always setup all MySQL 5.5. DB servers for clients with both plugins. In fact, I answered a question back on Aug 05, 2011 where I posted an update on Aug 08, 2011 on how to install both plugins at the same time

Please see Is MySQL Replication Affected by a High-Latency Interconnect?

Here is the excerpt from that update

EXCERPT

The configuration of MySQL 5.5 Semisynchronous Replication is straightforward

Step 1) Add these four(4) lines to /etc/my.cnf

[mysqld]
plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin
#rpl_semi_sync_master_enabled
#rpl_semi_sync_master_timeout=5000
#rpl_semi_sync_slave_enabled

Step 2) Restart MySQL

service mysql restart

Step 3) Run these commands in the MySQL client

INSTALL PLUGIN rpl_semi_sync_master SONAME 'semisync_master.so';
INSTALL PLUGIN rpl_semi_sync_slave  SONAME 'semisync_slave.so';

Step 4) Uncomment the three rpm_semi_sync options after the plugin-dir option

[mysqld]
plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin
rpl_semi_sync_master_enabled
rpl_semi_sync_master_timeout=5000
rpl_semi_sync_slave_enabled

Step 5) Restart MySQL

service mysql restart

All Done !!! Now just setup MySQL Replication as usual.