2 Feb
2015
2 Feb
'15
7:03 a.m.
DB names are purely internal to LMDB, so they bear no relation to OS filenames and none of this discussion matters to them.
They're exposed to the programmer and the program's users. Either may want them on command-line arguments, in config files, etc. It will be inconvenient if LMDB requires different string handling for non-ASCII filenames and non-ASCII DB names in such cases. The programmer may choose to use different string handling but let's try to avoid forcing him to do so.
A path is always a Unicode string, while a DB name can be an arbitrary binary blob. So I don't think that we can treat them the same way.