diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7d4e60f8..80dd7c2d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -83,11 +83,6 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(src-ext,
 	AS_HELP_STRING([--with-src-ext=ext], [set the file extension used by source packages]),
 	[SRCEXT=$withval], [SRCEXT=.src.tar.gz])
 
-# Help line for database extension
-AC_ARG_WITH(db-ext,
-	AS_HELP_STRING([--with-db-ext=ext], [set the file extension used by the database]),
-	[DBEXT=$withval], [DBEXT=.db.tar.gz])
-
 # Help line for buildscript filename
 AC_ARG_WITH(buildscript,
 	AS_HELP_STRING([--with-buildscript=name], [set the build script name used by makepkg]),
@@ -338,9 +333,6 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([PKGEXT], "$PKGEXT", [The file extension used by pacman packa
 # Set source package file extension
 AC_SUBST(SRCEXT)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([SRCEXT], "$SRCEXT", [The file extension used by pacman source packages])
-# Set database file extension
-AC_SUBST(DBEXT)
-AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([DBEXT], "$DBEXT", [The file extension used by pacman databases])
 # Set makepkg build script name
 AC_SUBST(BUILDSCRIPT)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([BUILDSCRIPT], "$BUILDSCRIPT", [The build script name used by makepkg])
@@ -393,7 +385,6 @@ ${PACKAGE_NAME}:
     root working directory : ${ROOTDIR}
     package extension      : ${PKGEXT}
     source pkg extension   : ${SRCEXT}
-    database extension     : ${DBEXT}
     build script name      : ${BUILDSCRIPT}
 
   Compilation options:
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/be_files.c b/lib/libalpm/be_files.c
index 666bb7e8..e2bbe287 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/be_files.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/be_files.c
@@ -231,9 +231,9 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_db_update(int force, pmdb_t *db)
 		RET_ERR(PM_ERR_DB_NOT_FOUND, -1);
 	}
 
-	len = strlen(db->treename) + strlen(DBEXT) + 1;
+	len = strlen(db->treename) + 4;
 	MALLOC(dbfile, len, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_MEMORY, -1));
-	sprintf(dbfile, "%s" DBEXT, db->treename);
+	sprintf(dbfile, "%s.db", db->treename);
 
 	dbpath = alpm_option_get_dbpath();
 
@@ -253,9 +253,9 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_db_update(int force, pmdb_t *db)
 	syncdbpath = _alpm_db_path(db);
 
 	/* form the path to the db location */
-	len = strlen(dbpath) + strlen(db->treename) + strlen(DBEXT) + 1;
+	len = strlen(dbpath) + strlen(db->treename) + 4;
 	MALLOC(dbfilepath, len, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_MEMORY, -1));
-	sprintf(dbfilepath, "%s%s" DBEXT, dbpath, db->treename);
+	sprintf(dbfilepath, "%s%s.db", dbpath, db->treename);
 
 	if(force) {
 		/* if forcing update, remove the old dir and extract the db */
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.am b/scripts/Makefile.am
index 0fde3345..31e8fb5d 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.am
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.am
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ edit = sed \
 	-e 's|@PACKAGE_VERSION[@]|$(REAL_PACKAGE_VERSION)|g' \
 	-e 's|@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT[@]|$(PACKAGE_BUGREPORT)|g' \
 	-e 's|@PACKAGE_NAME[@]|$(PACKAGE_NAME)|g' \
-	-e 's|@DBEXT[@]|$(DBEXT)|g' \
 	-e 's|@BUILDSCRIPT[@]|$(BUILDSCRIPT)|g' \
 	-e 's|@SIZECMD[@]|$(SIZECMD)|g' \
 	-e 's|@SEDINPLACE[@]|$(SEDINPLACE)|g' \
diff --git a/scripts/rankmirrors.sh.in b/scripts/rankmirrors.sh.in
index b0dc1ab7..0cd4c083 100644
--- a/scripts/rankmirrors.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/rankmirrors.sh.in
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ getfetchurl() {
 	if [[ -z $reponame || $reponame = $replacedurl ]]; then
 		echo "fail"
 	else
-		local fetchurl="${replacedurl}/$reponame@DBEXT@"
+		local fetchurl="${replacedurl}/$reponame.db"
 		echo "$fetchurl"
 	fi
 }
diff --git a/test/pacman/pmdb.py b/test/pacman/pmdb.py
index 8cb1b832..41bd7384 100755
--- a/test/pacman/pmdb.py
+++ b/test/pacman/pmdb.py
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ class pmdb:
 
         # Generate database archive
         mkdir(path)
-        archive = os.path.join(path, "%s%s" % (self.treename, PM_EXT_DB))
+        archive = os.path.join(path, "%s.db" % (self.treename))
         tar = tarfile.open(archive, "w:gz")
         for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'):
             for d in dirs:
diff --git a/test/pacman/pmtest.py b/test/pacman/pmtest.py
index f2b96760..b1d778e1 100755
--- a/test/pacman/pmtest.py
+++ b/test/pacman/pmtest.py
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ class pmtest:
         vprint("    Creating sync database archives")
         for key, value in self.db.iteritems():
             if key == "local": continue
-            archive = value.treename + PM_EXT_DB
+            archive = value.treename + ".db"
             vprint("\t" + os.path.join(SYNCREPO, archive))
             value.gensync(os.path.join(syncdir, value.treename))
 
diff --git a/test/pacman/util.py b/test/pacman/util.py
index e01a3b8f..657230ee 100755
--- a/test/pacman/util.py
+++ b/test/pacman/util.py
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ PM_DBPATH   = "var/lib/pacman"
 PM_LOCK     = "var/lib/pacman/db.lck"
 PM_CACHEDIR = "var/cache/pacman/pkg"
 PM_EXT_PKG  = ".pkg.tar.gz"
-PM_EXT_DB   = ".db.tar.gz"
 PM_PACNEW   = ".pacnew"
 PM_PACORIG  = ".pacorig"
 PM_PACSAVE  = ".pacsave"