On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:30 -0700, Ed Anuff wrote: > Are the restrictions on column family names specified anywhere? I see that > hyphens aren't allowed, and I assume anything else that wouldn't work in a > filename? I assume that underscores, commas, and periods are allowed?
This is a good question, and no there is no formal specification. Hyphens are definitely out since they are used as delimiters when constructing filenames, and imagine that things like slashes and backslashes would wreak havoc as well. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1185 -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
