Re: column family names

2011-12-29 Thread Scott Lewis
Hi Edward, On 12/29/2011 12:51 PM, Edward Capriolo wrote: I never use '.' or '-' in anything. It tends to get object mapping, code generation libraries, and interpreters upset. I just use a-z and lower case and know that no one can take that away from me (hopefully). I don't necessarily disagr

Re: column family names

2011-12-29 Thread Scott Lewis
do not confirm to a '^\w+' regex * disallow invalid keyspace and column family names. This includes name that matches a '^\w+' regex. (CASSANDRA-1377) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1377 On 12/29/11, Scott Lewis wrote: I've noticed when creating col

column family names

2011-12-28 Thread Scott Lewis
I've noticed when creating column families that the name of the column family apparently has some restrictions...e.g. the presence of a '.' character in the column family name seems to throw an exception. Is there anywhere articulated the restrictions on column family names (and keyspace names