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We had a Grafana dashboard where one of the columns was a short Git hash. One day, a commit got the hash `89e2520`, which Grafana's frontend helpfully decided t

by lainga 6y ago

We had a Grafana dashboard where one of the columns was a short Git hash. One day, a commit got the hash `89e2520`, which Grafana's frontend helpfully decided to display as "+infinity". Presumably it was parsing 89E+2520.

rootusrootus 6y ago
Ha, that reminds me of some work I was doing just yesterday, implementing a custom dictionary for a postgres full text search index. Postgres has a number of mappings that you can specify, and it picks which one based on a guess of what the data represents. I got bit by a string token in this same format, because it got interpreted as an exponential number.
BlueTemplar 6y ago
Sounds like the core issue is that an hexadecimal number was encoded as a string ?