[pkg-go] Bug#917041: golang-github-influxdata-influxql: Outdated version produces empty results for some queries

[Guillem Jover]

Source: golang-github-influxdata-influxql
Source-Version: 0.0~git20180330.145e067-2
Severity: serious

Hi!

This package is a bit outdated and it causes some queries to produce
empty results. We noticed this with our internal influxdb version, when
grafana was not showing some graphs for some stuff, and packaging and
upgrading it to 0.0~git20180925.1cbfca8-0.1 and rebuilding influxdb with
that fixed the issues. I think there are multiple upstream reports about
this, which I'll be commenting on, as they seem to be undiagnosed there.

A reproducer with packages from Debian sid follows:

  ,---
  $ influx
  Connected to http://localhost:8086 version 1.6.4
  InfluxDB shell version: 1.6.4
  > quit
  $ curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/noaa.water-database/NOAA_data.txt \
      -o NOAA_data.txt
  $ influx -import -path=NOAA_data.txt -precision=s \
      -database=NOAA_water_database
  $ influx -database NOAA_water_database \
      -execute 'show tag values with key = "randtag"'
  $
  `---

While that should be returning something like:

  ,---
  name: h2o_quality
  key       value
  ---       -----
  randtag   1
  randtag   2
  randtag   3
  `---

Thanks,
Guillem