Phoenix uses <schema name> . <table name> to reference tables, so
allowing a "." in names would make parsing ambiguous.
James
On 05/07/2013 11:36 PM, Stack wrote:
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Francis Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
One thing I had in mind was to automatically assume that the first dot
delimits the namespace name. During upgrade we automatically create those
namespaces and assign the tables accordingly. They can then eventually
migrate/rename their tables (if needed) at a later time. In the extreme
case that would be one namespace per table. For which we will provide a
tool to rename offline tables.
I'm guessing most cases would not require a rename. What else do people
use dots in their table name for?
With namespaces in place, will '.' be illegal in a table name?
With namespaces, is there a no-namespace/default location? If so, what
will it be called or how will you refer to tables in the
no-namespace/default namespace?
I just took a user's production website where there are hundreds of tables.
For no good reason that I can see, they happened to have choosen '_' and
'-' as table name partitioner: i.e. application_feature, etc. My sense is
they could just as easily have gone with '.' but maybe the '.META.' name
frightens people away from '.'?
Anyone using '.' in their table names?
St.Ack
