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Eric Evans commented on CASSANDRA-2745:
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No, this is expected behavior. You can use an unquoted string literal when it
is alpha-numeric (including underscore) and begins with a letter, otherwise you
must quote it (single quotes).
The documentation could probably be clearer/state this more prominently;
Suggestions for improved documentation welcomed.
> CQL Error InvalidRequestException(why:line 1:22 mismatched character '6'
> expecting '-')
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> Key: CASSANDRA-2745
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2745
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0 beta 2
> Reporter: Chris Chiappone
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> There appears to be a bug in the way Cassandra is parsing the ColumnFamily
> names when using CQL. It looks as though the parse tends to think a
> ColumnFamily name may be hex when it really is a string such as
> 30BDB2526BA36CD0E4ABBBEEA88911DD.
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