[CASSANDRA-915] disallow column family names containing hyphens

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7 beta 1
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Eric Evans
• Created: 23/Mar/10 21:33
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 19/Apr/10 21:58

Description

You cannot use use hyphens in column family names because hyphens are used as delimiters in sstable filenames (which are derived from the CF name).

It should be an error to configure such a column family name.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: CASSANDRA-44 It is difficult to modify the set of ColumnFamliies in an existing cluster