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Who says developing MariaDB plugins is hard? I was able to produce one in under 3 minutes!

I of course did it by asking Grok nicely:

The produced result is actually very decent:

/*
errorwatch.c – MariaDB Audit API plugin

Records statement execution errors into a dedicated log file.

This plugin subscribes to the GENERAL audit class and logs
events of type MYSQL_AUDIT_GENERAL_ERROR (and STATUS events
that carry a non-zero error code). It writes structured
entries to /var/log/mariadb/errorwatch.log (or /tmp/ fallback).

To build (inside MariaDB source tree):
1. Copy this file and CMakeLists.txt to plugin/errorwatch/
2. …

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