In InfluxDB 1.0+ the SHOW FIELD KEYS query will give the field type. In
prior versions there is no way to explicitly return the type of a field. We
can infer it from the query responses. Strings will be surrounded by
double-quotes in the JSON, numbers won't have quotes.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Michael Reed <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 11:57:57 AM UTC-7, Michael Reed wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 5:46:40 PM UTC-7, Sean Beckett wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll bet dollars to donuts that your field values are strings, not
>>> floats. The COUNT() will still return, but all the other functions fail on
>>> string values. Check your write statements to make sure the numbers are
>>> being written WITHOUT double-quotes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> PS.  You get the donuts!  They were strings and not floats.  Still would
>> like to know whether influxdb offers something like explain or describe.
>> Thanks
>>
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