influxdata / influxdata/influxdb
Add "CASE WHEN"/value decoding functionality
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Description
Creating a new issue as #9528 was closed.
**Proposal**: Add CASE WHEN to the query language. For example, when monitoring the status of a service, I track status codes. I'd like to be able to query a translation for the status codes. So if I have a svchealth measurement which contains the svcid tag and the statuscode value, I'd be able to do query the translation of statuscode this way:
`select
svcid,
statuscode,
case
when statuscode = 1 then 'running'
when statuscode = 2 then 'paused'
when statuscode = 3 then 'stopped'
else 'unknown'
end as statustext
from svchealth`
Or a simpler variant - a decode function which would work similarly:
`select
svcid,
statuscode,
decode(statuscode,
1, 'running',
2, 'paused',
3, 'stopped',
'unknown') as statustext
from svchealth`
Current behavior: The feature does not exist, and I have to store statustext alongside statuscode which leads to denormalization
Desired behavior: The ability to decode values
Use case: Show meaningful text in visualization tools
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the query-language parser and execution paths, then determine whether CASE WHEN, decode, or both fit the project’s query design. Done would mean a decided syntax and implementation plan with coverage for the status-code examples.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- database
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100