fixes influxdata#3939 by allowing t and f to be treated as booleans

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 - [#4111](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/4111): Update pre-commit hook for go vet composites
 - [#4136](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/4136): Return an error-on-write if target retention policy does not exist. Thanks for the report @ymettier
 - [#4124](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/4124): Missing defer/recover/panic idiom in HTTPD service
+- [#3939](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/3939): [0.9.3] Acceptable boolean syntax differs for data writes and data queries thanks @apriendeau
 
 ## v0.9.4 [2015-09-14]
 

influxql/parser_test.go

@@ -1590,7 +1590,15 @@ func TestParser_ParseExpr(t *testing.T) {
 		{s: `100`, expr: &influxql.NumberLiteral{Val: 100}},
 		{s: `'foo bar'`, expr: &influxql.StringLiteral{Val: "foo bar"}},
 		{s: `true`, expr: &influxql.BooleanLiteral{Val: true}},
+		{s: `True`, expr: &influxql.BooleanLiteral{Val: true}},
+		{s: `TRUE`, expr: &influxql.BooleanLiteral{Val: true}},
+		{s: `t`, expr: &influxql.BooleanLiteral{Val: true}},
+		{s: `T`, expr: &influxql.BooleanLiteral{Val: true}},
 		{s: `false`, expr: &influxql.BooleanLiteral{Val: false}},
+		{s: `False`, expr: &influxql.BooleanLiteral{Val: false}},
+		{s: `FALSE`, expr: &influxql.BooleanLiteral{Val: false}},
+		{s: `f`, expr: &influxql.BooleanLiteral{Val: false}},
+		{s: `F`, expr: &influxql.BooleanLiteral{Val: false}},
 		{s: `my_ident`, expr: &influxql.VarRef{Val: "my_ident"}},
 		{s: `'2000-01-01 00:00:00'`, expr: &influxql.TimeLiteral{Val: mustParseTime("2000-01-01T00:00:00Z")}},
 		{s: `'2000-01-01 00:00:00.232'`, expr: &influxql.TimeLiteral{Val: mustParseTime("2000-01-01T00:00:00.232Z")}},

influxql/token.go

@@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ func init() {
 	for _, tok := range []Token{AND, OR} {
 		keywords[strings.ToLower(tokens[tok])] = tok
 	}
+	keywords["t"] = TRUE
+	keywords["f"] = FALSE
 	keywords["true"] = TRUE
 	keywords["false"] = FALSE
 }