Christopher Tubbs created ACCUMULO-1712: -------------------------------------------
Summary: Remove special characters from path names of metadata tables Key: ACCUMULO-1712 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1712 Project: Accumulo Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Christopher Tubbs Fix For: 1.6.0 This is particularly problematic because of the quoting required to examine hdfs paths with a "!" character in them. The root table ID and the metadata table ID should not use special characters. Some considerations: # should not collide with possible user table IDs # might be useful, but may not be necessary, to retain lexicographical sort order, so root table goes first, then metadata table, then other tables Some options: # Use negative numbers: -1 for the root table, -2 for the metadata table (my personal favorite) # Use a different special character: %, &, +, or . (each of which may have special considerations) # Reserve a block of IDs for internal use (say, 0-10 or 0-100), and move other tables on upgrade -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira