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Posted to user@hbase.apache.org by Ted Dunning <td...@maprtech.com> on 2011/01/21 03:14:35 UTC
syntactic constraints on table names?
Are there syntactic constraints on table names?
Can they contain arbitrary characters?
Re: syntactic constraints on table names?
Posted by Stack <st...@duboce.net>.
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 <td...@maprtech.com> wrote:
> Excellent. Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Andrew Purtell <ap...@apache.org> 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 <td...@maprtech.com> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Ted Dunning <td...@maprtech.com>
>> > Subject: syntactic constraints on table names?
>> > To: user@hbase.apache.org
>> > Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6:14 PM
>> >
>> > Are there syntactic constraints on table names?
>> >
>> > Can they contain arbitrary characters?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
Re: syntactic constraints on table names?
Posted by Ted Dunning <td...@maprtech.com>.
Excellent. Thanks.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Andrew Purtell <ap...@apache.org> 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 <td...@maprtech.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Ted Dunning <td...@maprtech.com>
> > Subject: syntactic constraints on table names?
> > To: user@hbase.apache.org
> > Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6:14 PM
> >
> > Are there syntactic constraints on table names?
> >
> > Can they contain arbitrary characters?
>
>
>
>
>
Re: syntactic constraints on table names?
Posted by Andrew Purtell <ap...@apache.org>.
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 <td...@maprtech.com> wrote:
> From: Ted Dunning <td...@maprtech.com>
> Subject: syntactic constraints on table names?
> To: user@hbase.apache.org
> Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6:14 PM
>
> Are there syntactic constraints on table names?
>
> Can they contain arbitrary characters?