From 6b54e4de56603671c45b0b72bd9bcc01dcb105e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip O'Toole Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 22:22:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Retention policy not created by default --- README.md | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6ba067e1f6..523b23a006 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -32,10 +32,13 @@ For those adventurous enough, you can * `service influxdb start` if you have installed InfluxDB using an official Debian or RPM package. * `$GOPATH/bin/influxd` if you have built InfluxDB from source. -### Creating your first database +### Creating your first database and retention policy ```JSON curl -G 'http://localhost:8086/query' --data-urlencode "q=CREATE DATABASE mydb" + +curl -G 'http://localhost:8086/query' --data-urlencode "q=CREATE RETENTION POLICY mypolicy \ +ON mydb DURATION 7d REPLICATION 1 DEFAULT" ``` ### Insert some data @@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ curl -G 'http://localhost:8086/query' --data-urlencode "q=CREATE DATABASE mydb" curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8086/write -d ' { "database": "mydb", - "retentionPolicy": "default", + "retentionPolicy": "mypolicy", "points": [ { "time": "2014-11-10T23:00:00Z",