Use the source :) [edward@ec cas-trunk]$ grep regex ./* ./build.xml: <ignore regex="org.apache.log4j.*"/> ./build.xml: <containsregexp expression="^0 Unknown Licenses"/> ./build.xml: <regexpmapper from="^.*/([^/]+)$$" to="\1" handledirsep="yes" /> ./CHANGES.txt: matches a '^\w+' regex. (CASSANDRA-1377) ./NEWS.txt: to the '^\w+' regex convention. ./NEWS.txt: - Keyspace and column family names that do not confirm to a '^\w+' regex
* disallow invalid keyspace and column family names. This includes name that matches a '^\w+' regex. (CASSANDRA-1377) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1377 On 12/29/11, Scott Lewis <sle...@composent.com> wrote: > I've noticed when creating column families that the name of the column > family apparently has some restrictions...e.g. the presence of a '.' > character in the column family name seems to throw an exception. Is > there anywhere articulated the restrictions on column family names (and > keyspace names...if there are any such restrictions). If so, where? > > Thanksinadvance, > > Scott > > >