On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 17:09, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think it's really viable to promise that we'll never talk > about extending anything other than in the context of what CREATE > EXTENSION does.
Agreed, but it seems nice to avoid confusion by not overloading terminology, if we can find a good/decent alternative. When we do have an overloaded term, we should definitely document what we mean with it and how it differs from other usage of the term. But even then many people won't have read those docs and assume it means the thing that they expect it to mean. A good example of this is the fact that initdb creates a "database cluster". We definitely document that we use the term that way. But if you talk/write about a database cluster many people (understandably) expect you to mean a very different thing.
