Coordinate-systems and vector fields.

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Consider this question that I asked on Physics SE. Rereading it I realized that when I said "...are left with two possibilities: a circumferential field and a longitudinal field", I assumed that there were no other possible directions on which the field can depend. Is this assumption justified? Or equivalently, can any coordinate system with three orthogonal axes, is enough to solve a vector field problem?