Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net 
http://www.hollyit.net

Poll module does not create tables unless it is enabled, and if you uninstall it, it should delete them. If you don't use poll, and you uninstall it before upgrading it, I don't think you'll see anything after upgrade.

If you once had it enabled, then the update would try to update it (I think).

My D7 blog (updated from D6) has 125 tables, including poll, poll_choices, and poll_votes, which is a fairly normal number for a simple D7 site.

-Randy

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Sam Tresler <sam@treslerdesigns.com> wrote:

Discussions about shared vs. dedicated hosting aside...

Why does a default Drupal "install" create all the tables for all the core modules at once, as opposed to when the modules are enabled?  Maybe this has changed and I should go look again, but it seems to me that I have a lot of Drupal sites with, for example:

| poll                     | | poll_choices             | | poll_votes               |

tables that I have never once used.

Is there a reason these aren't enabled on demand as opposed to on install?

-Sam

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Randy Fay wrote:

It's my oft-stated opinion that no non-trivial site will ever live happily
for long on shared hosting. Trivial sites do fine. I have my D7 blog on
Dreamhost, which has unlimited everything. But you see, it's not really
unlimited, because they kill long-running processes, etc., etc.  So it's
fine for a site that does not have many visitors or lots of modules.
Dreamhost and some other hosts are even fine where you have lots and lots of
databases or files. But it's the actual use where they get you.

-Randy

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai@content2zero.com> wrote:

Jeff,

Kudos to you for finding a shared host where you can get decent
performance, from your perspective, for such a set-up.

I just had one bad experience after another with Drupal on shared hosting.
I finally caved  and got a dedicated box with support.

The amount I pay for a dedicated server is paid back to me many times in
therapy bills I save.

In my case, I was always yelling at the shared host for lousy performance
before they would come to me complaining I'm using too many resources. But
all the power to ya' if you and your clients have been happy.

The host coming after you, however, is to be expected.

best,

Shai

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:24 PM, <jeff@ayendesigns.com> wrote:

For those who don't have the few minutes: it's an expression of joy!


On 12/06/2010 03:17 PM, Steve Edwards wrote:

As I side note, I just spent a few minutes googling the phrase "chuffed
to mint balls", since I had never heard that before.  Thanks for adding that
phrase to the collective Drupal vocabulary, Jeff. :-)

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Sam Tresler
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