SELECT solely on time should return error #3778
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It should actually be valid to put |
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@pauldix -- what if it's the only SELECT field? No results back? |
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then it should throw an error. They need to actually select some real data. |
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Right, makes sense. So if it's the only field throw back an error, if it's accompanied by other fields, ignore it. |
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@pauldix -- policy updated, plus test added to show that |
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| @@ -1394,6 +1394,11 @@ func TestServer_Query_Common(t *testing.T) { | |||
| exp: fmt.Sprintf(`{"results":[{"series":[{"name":"cpu","columns":["time","value"],"values":[["%s",1]]}]}]}`, now.Format(time.RFC3339Nano)), | |||
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| &Query{ | |||
| name: "explicitly selecting time and a valid measurement and field should succeed", | |||
| command: `SELECT time,value FROM db0.rp0.cpu`, | |||
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A test with select value, time would be nice as it would show that time will always be the first column, but all other columns still maintain their sort order (or should)
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Well, well, that test case fails. The following data comes back:
actual: {"results":[{"series":[{"name":"cpu","columns":["value","time"],"values":[["2015-08-20T23:57:35.973310065Z",1]]}]}]}
I'd like to address this separately as it will require a somewhat wider set of changes. OK? #3779
I'd like to get this panic fixed before the 0.9.3 window closes.
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@pauldix are there event based use cases where the value isn't important...only the time it happened matters? |
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@dgnorton maybe, but they still need to store at least one value. For those use cases I would recommend using a boolean. Guess it's a little wasteful to return that, but this is definitely the least of our concerns right now. |
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Thanks for the reviews @pauldix and @corylanou -- merging on green and will cherry-pick to 0.9.3. |
SELECT solely on time should return error
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FWIW, I'm building an alerting system on top of influxdb and it would be really useful to be able to get the time of the last reported value for a particular series, without particular reference to the value itself. The goal is to write an alert that checks for "is still receiving data", in case the sensors in question die. |
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@nornagon that sounds like a valid use case that hasn't been fully discussed. Can you open a new issue with a feature request? |
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Done: #4862 |
Fixes #3010.
Simply check for
timein theSELECTclause, and kick it back if the query contains it. Should this be a case-insensitive check?