What Andrew said but in code: http://hbase.apache.org/xref/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HTableDescriptor.html#266
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent. Thanks. > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are restrictions enforced client side. User table names can only >> start with [a-zA-Z0-9\_] and otherwise can contain only [a-zA-Z0-9\-\_\.] >> >> Best regards, >> >> - Andy >> >> Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. >> - Piet Hein (via Tom White) >> >> >> --- On Thu, 1/20/11, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > From: Ted Dunning <[email protected]> >> > Subject: syntactic constraints on table names? >> > To: [email protected] >> > Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6:14 PM >> > >> > Are there syntactic constraints on table names? >> > >> > Can they contain arbitrary characters? >> >> >> >> >> >
