Re: Ltree: set of allowed charcters is limited to [A-Za-z0-9_]. Could the dash "-" be included?

> On 27 Oct 2018, at 18:14, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, October 27, 2018, joernbs <joern(dot)jaenecke(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> I would like to use ltree for search paths in a warehouse application, something like "Material-Entry-01.Main-Aisle.Shelf-Aisle-R07/R08.R07-12-03"
>> Unfortunately I can not use common separators like dash (-) or slash(/)
>>
>> Documentation states only thes characters [A-Za-z0-9_] are allowed.https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/ltree.html
>>
> I don’t see how this would be possible to do with the existing type - too much potential breakage of existing data. Your example itself shows why using dash as a separator is a bad idea.

David,

I don't think he's talking about separators ;)

Alban Hertroys
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