I'm unpublishing/deleting content created for the blog module, removing the blog module folder, and running "/dev/build?flush=1", but the blog database tables have not been renamed with the "_obsolete" prefix. Any suggestions what I might be doing wrong? Running v2.3.5.

I'm not sure... I think I do remember this issue.
Does the _obsolete-suffix show up if you first empty the blog-module-files (select all > delete), run dev/build and then deleting the file itself?

I remember reading somewhere that not showing up _obsolete after deleting a module has something to do with being able to reinstall the blogmodule and reusing all previously entered data.

OK, I could be totally wrong on this, but give it a shot and post back.
Though I did run into this issue, I have never really explored it.
Just did manually the things I expected the CMS to be doing automatically ;-)

I've tried as many variations of installation of the (blog) module followed
by the uninstall procedure as I can think of (included the above suggestion),
but so far I can not find any variation which exhibits the documented behavior
(i.e. prepending "obsolete_" to the table name). Will keep trying.
Has anyone else seen this?

The _obsolete prefix is added to tables and or columns in table when DB::dontRequireTable(). It usually signals the SS has uninstalled a module, or some other cleanup up task has been run. Its quite common and nothing to be worried about.

SilverStripe will very rarely delete anything when you uninstall / modify anything rather it will append that prefix and leave the task of deleting those tables to the developer.

Hi Willr,

Thanks for dropping in.
As far as I understand, frodeaux says obsolete_ isn't prepended if he is uninstalling/deleting the blog-module.

And I myself have had this issue also with uninstalling/deleting some other modules (but never documented them).

Is this a bug in SS or in the module? Or are we doing something wrong?

I believe keeping the database structure 'tidy' is up to the core rather then the modules. How it *should* work as I see it is if you remove the blog module, then run dev/build it should rename the tables to _obselete. If it doesn't do that AFAIK I would class that as a bug. It should do this with tables at least. Database columns are probably not included in that process.

Willr,

I can confirm that at least in my environment (with ss v2.3.5 and
PHP 5.3.0) the tables created by the blog module do not get
renamed when the blog module is deleted. My expectations match
yours in terms of how it *should* work.

While this is not the end of the world, it does appear to be a bug,
and it would be better if the renaming occurred as expected, so that
obsolete tables could eventually be deleted by the administrator or
developer.