On Sun, May 30, 2021, at 08:51, Joel Jacobson wrote:
Maybe this is out of scope for extensions, since I guess extensions are supposed to add features?
If so, how about a new separate command `CREATE REDUCTION` specifically to remove unwanted core features,
which then wouldn't need the "no_" prefix since it would be implicit and in a different namespace:
Another idea would be to extract features that are considered deprecated/legacy into separate extensions,
and ship them pre-installed for compatibility reasons,
but this would allow uninstalling them using DROP EXTENSION,
similar to how e.g. "plpgsql" which is a pre-installed extension can be uninstalled.
(Except I wouldn't want to uninstall plpgsql, I think it's great! But I note it's the only pre-installed extension shipped with PostgreSQL, so it's a good example on the concept.)
/Joel