Hi Alex,

The proposed restrictions make sense to me.

I approved the PR in GH.

Cheers,
Dmitri.

On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 4:50 PM Alexandre Dutra <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We recently added some safeguards around entity names [1].
>
> As I mentioned before [2], I think we could go a bit further and
> forbid characters that most cloud providers either forbid, or strongly
> advise against.
>
> These are:
>
> - Control characters
> - Backslash `\`
> - Path segments equal to `.` or `..`
> - Commonly discouraged symbols: * ? " < > | #
>
> I opened a PR recently to implement this suggestion [3].
>
> What do you all think?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> [1]: https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/4282
> [2]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/g54czqdfw2r7k7cxrtfd84wtd52kxps4
> [3]: https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/4479
>

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