[rrd-users] Strange values in RRA

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Steve Shipway wrote:

> >         <ds>
> >                 <name> 1 </name>
> >                 <type> GAUGE </type>
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> Not a good idea to call a dataset by a numerical name.  This will
> confuse all sorts of things in the RPN for a start.  Best stick
> to alpha.
>
> In fact, I don?t think you CAN use a numeric name in the normal
> APIs, but RRD::Simple seems not to make as many sanity checks...

you can not use numeric names, because this would cause an
ambiguity in CDEF expressions.

cheers
tobi

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