[support] upgrading to 5.8. One question.

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Fred Jones <fredthejonester at gmail.com>:

>> I seem to recall I had problems way back around 5.3 doing this. I disabled
>> CCK I think it was and tables such as content_type_XYZ in my db were
>> eliminated, together with the content in them. Am I remembering correctly?
>
> Can't say if it's correct or not, but I don't actually change themes
> nor disable mods when I do a 'minor' update of core Drupal. It may be
> risky, but I have never had a problem. But yes, disabling some modules
> will IIRC remove tables and therefore data.
>

In D5 at least disabling modules does not remove tables.  You have to 
use the Uninstall function for that and the module has to provide the 
hook.

> Either way, always do the whole process on a spare site, or at the
> very least, backup your files and DB first. :)
>

Yes, always do a backup before changing your environment.

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