Tom Lane wrote:
Also, ____ says that Windows throws an error for ":" in the filename,
which means we needn't.
Windows doesn't fail - but it can do odd things. For example, try:
C:\> echo hi >foo:bar
If one then checks the directory, one finds a "foo".
Depending on *which* API one uses, the rules may change around a bit -
but whatever the situation, as long as you prefix it with a valid path,
the ":" is not going to cause you problems.
It might still be a good idea to restrict the names to be SQL
identifiers (ie, alphanumerics and underscores) for future-proofing,
but it wasn't clear whether anyone but me thought that was a good
argument. I'm willing to make it just be no-dir-separators.
I think it is a good argument.
Cheers,
mark
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