I wrote that comment 3 years ago! It definitely took me a week or two worth of work to figure out what was happening there. The problem was exacerbated by the f

I wrote that comment 3 years ago! It definitely took me a week or two worth of work to figure out what was happening there. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that the influx cli client then had different behaviour compared to the python client. Not sure if that has been fixed, but this isn't code that I'm really proud of. :D