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
