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The documentation for hook_update_N() says the following:

Implementations of hook_update_N() are named (module name)update(number). The numbers are composed of three parts:

  • 1 digit for Drupal core compatibility.
  • 1 digit for your module's major release version (e.g., is this the 7.x-1.* (1) or 7.x-2.* (2) series of your module?). This digit should be 0 for initial porting of your module to a new Drupal core API.
  • 2 digits for sequential counting, starting with 00.

These are hypothetical questions:

What happens if you get to something like 7299? Are you required to release a major version update next even if you don't implement the hook, or if you do?

What happens if you have a lot of branches or major releases and get to something like 8900 and want to release a new one for that version of Drupal... 8(10)00? I know some modules go from 7.x-3.x to 8.x-4.x, so this could potentially happen if they continue in that way.

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  • It's just a number, really, a convention; it isn't validated against the current version of the module or anything. The digit count also isn't enforced (foo_update_8101000 is valid, for example), but it's easy to introduce ambiguity if you go to extremes. Take 811123. Is that major version 11 and minor 123, or major version 1 and minor 1123? – Clive♦ Sep 23 at 18:27
  • So in the event of the ambiguity, would it still be invoked correctly? I don't know where the hooks are invoked from. – mbomb007 Sep 23 at 18:39
  • Yep it'll be invoked, first time (so for version 1.1123 in the above example), but then if/when you get to version 11.123, the function name would be the same, so you can't use it again. You could skip a version, 11.124, but then you may have already had a 1.1124, and so on. Quite messy, and that's just one example of the, I'm sure many, possible collisions. In short, unless I'm missing something, it doesn't seem to be a system that supports what you're proposing very well – Clive♦ Sep 23 at 18:55
  • So it just concatenates {major}{minor} and invokes if it hasn't been invoked yet? Also, you could probably write an answer. – mbomb007 Sep 23 at 19:05
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    See update_get_update_list() and drupal_get_schema_versions() for the nitty-gritty – Clive♦ Sep 23 at 19:29
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The one time I dealt with this, I just kept on going. After 7199, I moved to 71100, then 71101 etc. It wasn't a problem (Drupal 7).

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