OK thanks Sean. I think I've been failing to fully grok how series's work, 
i'll go and check that out.
Thanks again.

On Wednesday, 30 November 2016 17:31:26 UTC+13, Sean Beckett wrote:
>
> Since you have multiple series because of the GROUP BY clause, you should 
> use SLIMIT to restrict the number of series returned. It's returning one 
> point each series, which is what LIMIT is intended to do.
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Glenn Davy <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:08:23 UTC+13, Sean Beckett wrote:
>>>
>>> what's the actual query, syntax and all
>>>
>>
>>  'select * from cpu group by role, host, cpu order by time asc limit 1'
>>
>>  
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Glenn Davy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh, ok thanks Sean. That also just solved another problem for me and 
>>>> that is the ruby influxdb gem was also not seperating out tags causing me 
>>>> issues, group by fixed that.
>>>>
>>>> The flow on problem for that however, is that limit 1 returns 349 
>>>> results, limits discussed further down that same doc, but im not seeing 
>>>> why? am i missing something?
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, 30 November 2016 11:13:28 UTC+13, Sean Beckett wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Use GROUP BY * and the tags will be preserved as tags. 
>>>>> https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.1/query_language/data_exploration/#common-issues-with-the-into-clause
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Glenn Davy <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> >That's a good workaround. There is no way to delete a field key 
>>>>>> without deleting every field on the point. Field keys can be 
>>>>>> overwritten, 
>>>>>> but only with the same 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> turns out not to be such a good work around.. tags get converted to 
>>>>>> fields
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks for chipping in though Sean.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wednesday, 30 November 2016 04:54:06 UTC+13, Sean Beckett wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's a good workaround. There is no way to delete a field key 
>>>>>>> without deleting every field on the point. Field keys can be 
>>>>>>> overwritten, 
>>>>>>> but only with the same type (boolean, float, etc.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Glenn Davy <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I guess as an alternative, i can do a select into, then drop the 
>>>>>>>> original measurement, then do a select into to get back to the 
>>>>>>>> original.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:59:19 UTC+13, Glenn Davy wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hey all
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Just wondering if its possible to delete field keys (and data 
>>>>>>>>> stored therein)?
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