5878 RESOLVED: The issue with ALTER RETENTION leading to unqueryable data has been fixed in https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7370. It will be available in the 1.0.2 patch due out in early October.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Sean Beckett <[email protected]> wrote: > UPDATE: > > The developers have a reproducible case now, and we are working on a fix. > The data does actually persist to disk, but in an unaddressable way. It is > recoverable using the `influx_inspect export` tool. > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Sean Beckett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are two outstanding bugs with the ALTER RETENTION POLICY statement >> that can lead to unexpected alterations, and in some cases, lost data. >> >> https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/5878 >> When altering a retention policy, the system may continue issuing 204 >> responses to writes, but the writes are not successfully persisted to disk. >> >> The corrective action is to alter the retention policy back to the >> precise original syntax and settings. Writes should again persist. >> >> **If you have a reproducible case for this issue, please let us know. We >> are still trying to recreate the issue on our test machines. >> >> https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/7150 >> When altering a retention policy, the SHARD DURATION may be reset to >> "24h" unless otherwise specified. This is not the intended behavior, as any >> unspecified parameters should remain unchanged. >> >> The workaround is to always issue every parameter in the ALTER statement, >> even those that don't change. >> >> >> -- >> Sean Beckett >> Director of Support and Professional Services >> InfluxDB >> > > > > -- > Sean Beckett > Director of Support and Professional Services > InfluxDB > -- Sean Beckett Director of Support and Professional Services InfluxDB -- Remember to include the InfluxDB version number with all issue reports --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InfluxDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CALGqCvMJ8ppTuREmY8%2BJ_YcfhG7E4n2J7RtjQXvgAjwc9JxabQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
