{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2555","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2555/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2555/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2555/events","html_url":"https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2555","id":75807597,"number":2555,"title":"can not create retention policies for downsampling purpose","user":{"login":"liyichao","id":2576762,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2576762?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/liyichao","html_url":"https://github.com/liyichao","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liyichao/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liyichao/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liyichao/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liyichao/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liyichao/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liyichao/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liyichao/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liyichao/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liyichao/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-05-13T01:45:27Z","updated_at":"2015-05-13T01:45:27Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I try to create downsampling series:\r\n\r\n```\r\n> create continuous query \"1_mins_rollup\" on collectd begin select mean(value) into \"1_week\".:series_name from /^[a-z]+.*/ group by time(1m) end\r\nERR: error parsing query: found :, expected identifier at line 1, char 92\r\n```\r\n\r\nIt seems regex is not supported in influxdb 0.9 now. Then I have to create a continuous query for `every`  measurement or series. It is too tedious."}}