It sounds like SLIMIT doesn't use the order by time desc clause at all.

I encourage you to file a feature request:
https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/new

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Tanya Unterberger <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Nope, sorry. I need the whole series and the latest series. Whereas the
> query
>
> select * from blah where x='y' and time > now() - 6h group by base_date
> order by time desc limit 1 slimit 1
>
> returns the last point of the earliest series.
>
> On 5 October 2016 at 14:20, Sean Beckett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Does
>>
>> select * from blah where x='y' and time > now() - 6h group by base_date
>> order by time desc limit 1 slimit 1
>>
>> return what you need?
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Tanya Unterberger <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Sean.
>>>
>>> But it's not the data I am after. I am after the latest series, not the
>>> latest point in each series. That's why I was using SLIMIT, but it returns
>>> the earliest series, whereas I need the latest...
>>>
>>> Tanya
>>>
>>> On 5 October 2016 at 12:32, Sean Beckett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ORDER BY time DESC only orders each series, and then SLIMIT returns
>>>> only one series. It doesn't necessarily return the series with the newest
>>>> point. Just remove the SLIMIT and use LIMIT 1.
>>>>
>>>> Note that the LIMIT clause doesn't (yet) restrict the points queried.
>>>> With a "SELECT *" clause it's important to restrict the time range.
>>>>
>>>> select * from blah where x='y' and time > now() - 6h group by base_date
>>>> order by time desc limit 1
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Tanya Unterberger <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Sean,
>>>>>
>>>>> That doesn't work as it still grabs the earliest base_date, not the
>>>>> latest...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Tanya
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4 October 2016 at 03:24, Sean Beckett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Add ORDER BY time DESC
>>>>>> <https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.0/query_language/data_exploration/#sort-query-returns-with-order-by-time-desc>
>>>>>> to the query
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 6:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We have forecast data issued for the same period of time. It can be
>>>>>>> issued at various time points, which we keep as base_date tags. What is 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> easiest way to get the latest issued forecast? If you try to run 
>>>>>>> something
>>>>>>> like "select * from blah where x='y' group by base_date slimit 1" the
>>>>>>> base_date is the earliest, not the latest.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>>>>> Tanya
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