[support] upgrading to 5.8. One question.

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Brian Choc <bchoc at t4tcolorado.org>:

> I found that disabling modules during minor upgrades causes data loss
> consistently under specific circumstances, during earlier updates (e.g. 5.2,
> 5.3).  I observed that any module-supplied node type would drop all the data
> in any assigned CCK fields when disabling & upgrading.  For example, if one
> had a simplenews node with an "editor" cck field attached to it, one would
> lose all "editor" information.  However, the basic simplenews node data
> would be kept, as would any cck fields attached to standard nodes.  Only the
> combo of cck + module-supplied-node-type seemed to cause problems.
>

So what you're indicating is that modules implementing hook_node_info 
will loose the node_type row and thusly the nodes of that type.  This 
would then be a critical bug in the core base system.  Or perhaps your 
incident is related to only one of the CCK fields modules and then the 
critical bug would lie with that module.  Disabling a module should not 
under any circumstance cause data to be removed.

That said, I do not disable modules either when upgrading from Drupal 
version 5.x to Drupal version 5.y.  However, that isn't the documented 
method and the documented method needs to work.

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