The additional locks shouldn't be necessary due to how the code is used,
but should prevent any potential data races in case we accidentally do
something bad.
The AuxIterator streams points to the underlying iterators. When it
started automatically, race conditions occurred between the stream
closing the iterators and creating iterators from the AuxIterator.
go 1.5 was being used to develop the query engine branch, but we aren't
using 1.5 for master at the moment. This fixes issues that go vet brings
up in 1.4 that don't exist in 1.5.
Aux iterators now ask the iterator creator what series will be returned
and determine which aux fields to create based on the results.
The `tsdb.Shards` struct also creates a call iterator around the
iterators returned from each shard.
Fill requires an additional function for IteratorCreator to retrieve the
series that will be returned from the iterator. When fill is required
for an aggregate, the IteratorCreator will be asked what series will be
returned by the created iterator.
When multiple sources are used, emit all points for a certain source
(like cpu) before another source (like mem) regardless of which window
they are in. If the sources are the same, then sort by window.
Continue to ignore tags since we don't need to sort nicely by tags with
a MergeIterator, only SortedMergeIterator.
Out of a list of iterators, an overarching iterator type is chosen and
only iterators of that type are returned for the merge iterator. If a
type can be cast to another type, an extra cast iterator is created to
handle that casting.
The only supported cast is from integers to floats.
Ben Johnson
Jonathan A. Sternberg