On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 4:34:29 PM UTC+1, Ross McDonald wrote:
> ​If you don't use a `GROUP BY *` at the end of a `SELECT ... INTO ...` query, 
> then any tags are automatically converted to fields. You're most likely 
> seeing the new tags with numbers due to there already being a field by the 
> same name. This is mentioned in the documentation here.
> 
> 
> You'll want to update your query to look more like:
> 
> ```
> 
> select * into pgdata2 from pgdata1 group by *
> ```
> 
> 
> To carry the tags over correctly.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 5:53 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> 
> I'm using Telegraf's postgresql_extensible input to store values into 
> Influxdb, and I found that after renaming/migrating the measurement by this 
> influxdb command:
> 
> 
> 
> "select * into pgdata2 from pgdata1"
> 
> 
> 
> and later inserting the new data (same tags) into the new measurement 
> 'pgdata2' there will be some new tags, for example host becomes host_1, db 
> becomes db_1, but the actual value tag stays the same.
> 
> 
> 
> If I migrate again into pgdata3, then there will be host_1_1, db_1_1. So now 
> I have three similar tags: host, host_1, host_1_1. (New data goes into the 
> last one.)
> 
> 
> 
> I checked Telegraf with tcpdump and I saw that Telegraf was sending the 
> correct names.
> 
> 
> 
> Is this behavior a bug or I just don't know something?
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Krisztián
> 
> 
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My bad! I read that in the docs a few weeks ago, but now I didn't realize I'm 
in that situation. :S

Thank you for the quick help!

Regards,
Krisztián

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