Removing a custom field via the UI (e.g. Custom Fields window) makes it disappear from the screen, but the underlying database column/definition still exists — what's the proper way to fully remove it?

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Use the right-click Cleanup function in the Custom Fields window's header (rather than just deleting the field from the UI) — this actually purges the field's definition from the database, whereas removing it just through the normal field-deletion action in the UI can leave the underlying column/definition behind even though it no longer shows in the interface.

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