Github user michalmisiewicz commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2666
@MikeThomsen yes. Chunking is the only way to fetch unlimited number of
rows in a single query from InfluxDB that has set `max-row-limit` property.
> Many production InfluxDB installation has limited number of rows returned
in a single query (by default 10k). Chunking query can return an unlimited
number of rows.---
