### Describe Your Changes
Fix https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/7301
When querying with condition like `WHERE a=1` (looking for series A),
InfluxDB can return data with the tag `a=1` (series A) and data with the
tag `a=1,b=1` (series B).
However, series B is will be queried later and it's data should not be
combined into series A's data.
This PR filter those series that are not identical to the original query
condition.
For table `example`:
```
// time host region value
// ---- ---- ------ -----
// 2024-10-25T02:12:13.469720983Z serverA us_west 0.64
// 2024-10-25T02:12:21.832755213Z serverA us_west 0.75
// 2024-10-25T02:12:32.351876479Z serverA 0.88
// 2024-10-25T02:12:37.766320484Z serverA 0.95
```
The query for series A (`example_value{host="serverA"}`) and result will
be:
```SQL
SELECT * FROM example WHERE host = "serverA"
```
```json
{
"results": [{
"statement_id": 0,
"series": [{
"name": "cpu",
"columns": ["time", "host", "region", "value"],
"values": [
["2024-10-25T02:12:13.469720983Z", "serverA", "us_west", 0.64],
["2024-10-25T02:12:21.832755213Z", "serverA", "us_west", 0.75],
["2024-10-25T02:12:32.351876479Z", "serverA", null, 0.88],
["2024-10-25T02:12:37.766320484Z", "serverA", null, 0.95]
]
}]
}]
}
```
We need to abandon `values[0]` and `values[1]` because the value of
**unwanted** column `region` is not null.
As for series B (`example_value{host="serverA", region="us_west"}`), no
change needed since the query filter out unwanted rows already.
### Note
This is a draft PR for verifying the fix.
### Checklist
The following checks are **mandatory**:
- [x] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
---------
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit f16a58f14c)
The `::tag` type is needed in cases when field and tag names are equal, which
results into unexpected results in InfluxQL. Setting the type explicitly helps
InfluxDB to understand which exact column we apply filter to.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1299
It is better developing vmctl tool in VictoriaMetrics repository, so it could be released
together with the rest of vmutils tools such as vmalert, vmagent, vmbackup, vmrestore and vmauth.
