Ah, sorry, I forgot that underscore was part of \w. That will do the trick for now.
I do not see the big issue with file names though. Why not expand the allowed characters a bit and escape the file names? Maybe some sort of URL like escaping. Terje On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > Moving to the user list. > > The new restrictions were added as part of CASSANDRA-1377 for 0.6.5 and > 0.7, AFAIK it's to ensure the file names created for the CFs can be > correctly parsed. So it's probably not going to change. > > The names have to match the \w reg ex class, which includes the underscore > character. > > > Aaron > > > On 30 Aug 2010, at 21:01, Terje Marthinussen <tmarthinus...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > Now that we can make columns families on the fly, it gets interesting to > use > column families more as part of the data model (can reduce diskspace quite > a > bit vs. super columns in some cases). > > However, currently, the column family name validator is pretty strict > allowing only word characters and in some cases it is pretty darned nice to > be able to put something like a "-" inbetweenallthewords. > > Any reason to be this strict or could it be loosened up a little bit? > > Terje > >
