{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2463","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2463/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2463/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2463/events","html_url":"https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2463","id":72282259,"number":2463,"title":"Cannot query tags containing non-alphabetic characters","user":{"login":"rbrndt","id":10423706,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10423706?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbrndt","html_url":"https://github.com/rbrndt","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbrndt/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbrndt/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbrndt/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbrndt/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbrndt/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbrndt/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbrndt/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbrndt/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rbrndt/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-04-30T21:13:46Z","updated_at":"2015-04-30T23:03:52Z","closed_at":"2015-04-30T23:03:52Z","body":"I put in some data which I can find in the database, but I cannot query it using the tag value if the tag name or value contains non-alphabetic characters such as a dash. I also see this when the tag name or value contains numbers and/or unicode characters.\r\n\r\nHere are the curl commands I used to produce this:\r\n\r\n-create the point\r\ncurl -XPOST 'http://192.168.10.4:8086/write' -d '{\"database\": \"mydb\", \"retentionPolicy\": \"default\", \"points\": [{\"name\": \"cpu_load_short\",\"tags\": {\"host\": \"server01\", \"region\": \"us-west\"}, \"timestamp\": \"2009-11-10T23:00:00Z\", \"fields\": {\"value\": 0.64}}]}'\r\n\r\n-query the point (this returns records)\r\ncurl –G ‘http://192.168.10.4:8086/query?q=show%20series%20from%20%22cpu_load_short%22&db=mydb’\r\n\r\n-query the point by tag (this does not return any records)\r\ncurl -G 'http://192.168.10.4:8086/query?q=show%20series%20from%20%22cpu_load_short%22%20where%20%27region%27%3D%22us-west%22&db=mydb'\r\n\r\ninflux: rc-28\r\nOS: 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04\r\n"}}