Re: column family names

[aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>]

From the help for create column family in the CLI…

- name: Name of the new column family. Names may only contain letters,
  numbers and underscores.

The CF name is used as part of a file name that includes other information and the "-" is used as a separator. 

Cheers

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Aaron Morton
Freelance Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 30/12/2011, at 9:59 AM, Scott Lewis wrote:

> Hi Edward,
> 
> On 12/29/2011 12:51 PM, Edward Capriolo wrote:
>> I never use '.' or '-' in anything. It tends to get object mapping,
>> code generation libraries, and interpreters upset. I just use a-z and
>> lower case and know that no one can take that away from me
>> (hopefully).
> 
> I don't necessarily disagree with these personal conventions, but on things like unique names it's my observation that others have other approaches...so in general I think it's desirable to be as weak on these naming restrictions as possible at the lower layers.
> 
> Scott
> 
>