[support] upgrading to 5.8. One question.

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Fred Jones <fredthejonester at gmail.com>:

>>> Disabling modules anyhow can certainly lose data. Even without
>>> uninstalling. I disabled the Ads module on a site once, I believe, and
>>> data was lost which we were forced to restore (what we could) from
>>> backups.
>>>
>> If it does the module is broken and needs a bug report issued.  I've
>> not found this case.
>
> I believe I made a mistake. The case where I lost data I think was
> actually that I uninstalled a module.
>

Thanks for the honesty.  Yes uninstalling the module should remove the 
table and any associated variable table settings.  But that depends on 
the coding in the module, it isn't Drupal automatic.

> You are correct, because simply disabling module does run any code, so
> how could any data be lost?
>
> It indeed should be the case that disabling modules will NOT lose any data.
>

I'm glad that we agree.

> My mistake for saying otherwise.
>

As long as mistakes such as these are confirmed as mistakes then no 
harm has been done.  I'm glad to here that what you had said wasn't 
true.

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