On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 18:01 +0900, Terje Marthinussen wrote:
>
> 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?
Anything's possible, but hyphens ("-") are particularly problematic
since we encode meta-data in the filename, separated by hyphens (i.e. we
rely on splitting the filename on "-").
--
Eric Evans
eev...@rackspace.com
