[development] best practice: create your own table (Re: D6 SAPI: using hook_install to ALTER {tables}

On Thursday 27 December 2007 18:44, Derek Wright wrote:

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Q3) Is it considered best practice to create your own tables rather   than adding fields to existing tables "belonging" to other modules?

definitely!  the other module might alter the schema and your data   could be destroyed.

Thanks. I documented it in the title :) If one tells me where else this should be documented, I'll do it. Blessings, Augustin.