influxdb output: quote the database name

closes #898

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 ### Bugfixes
 - [#890](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/890): Create TLS config even if only ssl_ca is provided.
 - [#884](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/884): Do not call write method if there are 0 metrics to write.
+- [#898](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/898): Put database name in quotes, fixes special characters in the database name.
 
 ## v0.11.1 [2016-03-17]
 

plugins/outputs/influxdb/influxdb.go

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ func (i *InfluxDB) Connect() error {
 
 			// Create Database if it doesn't exist
 			_, e := c.Query(client.Query{
-				Command: fmt.Sprintf("CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS %s", i.Database),
+				Command: fmt.Sprintf("CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS \"%s\"", i.Database),
 			})
 
 			if e != nil {