Hi, We've got a bit of a problem with command-line option prefixes in the test suite. As you know, in MariaDB a command line option (the same applies to my.cnf too) doesn't need to be specified completely, it's sufficient to use an unambigous prefix of it. For example, 'net-retry-count=5' in my.cnf can be abbreviated as 'net-ret=5'. But not as 'net-re=5', the latter will fail with an error mysqld: ambiguous option '--net-re' (net_read_timeout, net_retry_count) This is the historical behavior of MySQL since about 2002. But it creates problems for plugins. InnoDB is particularly badly affected - it has lots of I_S plugins that are prefixes of other I_S plugins. For example: INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU ... INNODB_CMP INNODB_CMPMEM INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX_RESET INNODB_CMP_RESET ... INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN_COLS ... INNODB_SYS_TABLES INNODB_SYS_TABLESPACES INNODB_SYS_TABLESTATS also, it has plugins that match other plugin variables, like INNODB_LOCKS and innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog. As a result one cannot see or predict what these options will do. For example --enable-innodb-buffer-page might enable INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE plugin. Or it might enable INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU plugin - depending on which plugin will loaded (and will see and consume the option) first. And one cannot possibly disable INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE plugin, if the server will try to load INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU first. I see few solutions for this issue: 1. support a special suffix to option names that will disable prefix matching, for example: mysqld --enable-innodb-buffer-page! this will not match innodb-buffer-page-lru, so it's unambiguous. Of course, any dedicated character can be used, --enable-innodb-buffer-page$, or even a prefix --enable-exact-innodb-buffer-page, --enable-strict-innodb-buffer-page 2. add a special command-line option to disable prefix matching: mysqld --disable-getopt-prefix-matching --enable-innodb-buffer-page 3. do like mysql-5.7 is doing and completely remove support for prefix matching. In 5.7 one has to specified option names in full. I suspect that this is likely to break many exising setups. Opinions? Anybody cares about this obscure issue at all? Regards, Sergei