This allows the query:
SELECT mean(value) FROM cpu GROUP BY time(1d)
To function in some way that makes sense. The upper limit is implicitly
the `now()` starting time and the lower limit will be whichever interval
the lowest point falls into.
When no lower bound is specified and `max-select-buckets` is specified,
the query will only consider points that would satisfy
`max-select-buckets`. So if you have one point written in 1970, have
another point within the last minute, and then do the above query with
`max-select-buckets` being equal to 10, the older point from 1970 will
not be considered.
All time ranges are combined with AND regardless of context and
regardless of whether it makes any logical sense.
That was the previous behavior and, unfortunately, a lot of people rely
on it.
Previously, subqueries would honor their own ordering. We never really
supported that and I have no idea if it would work since most parts in
the query engine assume that points are being delivered in only one
ordering.
Subqueries have now been modified so if a person tries to do different
ordering, they get an error when running the query. If they specify an
ordering in the top most query, that ordering gets propagated to all
subqueries.
Fixes#8699.
This refactors the validation code so it is more flexible and performs a
small bit of work to make preparing and executing the query easier.
The general idea is that compilation will eventually do more heavy
lifting in creating the initial plan and prepare will construct an
actual plan rather than just doing some basic field rewriting.
This change at least sets us up for that change in the future and moves
the validation code to the query execution instead of in the parser.
This also frees up the parser to parse the complete AST without worrying
if the query itself is valid. That could be useful for client code that
wants to compile a partial query to an AST and then perform
modifications on the AST for some reason.
Stuart Carnie
Jonathan A. Sternberg