From 741abbf590ed9cd111d6f6c5e4b1330e5c295425 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Nelson <daniel.nelson@influxdb.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:32:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Revert to 'f' formatting for floats in line protocol

Using 'g' with -1 precision switches over to scientific notation for too
small of numbers, and setting a larger precision results in larger than
desired representations.
---
 plugins/serializers/influx/influx.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/serializers/influx/influx.go b/plugins/serializers/influx/influx.go
index 51aed0d09..59d7662aa 100644
--- a/plugins/serializers/influx/influx.go
+++ b/plugins/serializers/influx/influx.go
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ func appendIntField(buf []byte, value int64) []byte {
 }
 
 func appendFloatField(buf []byte, value float64) []byte {
-	return strconv.AppendFloat(buf, value, 'g', -1, 64)
+	return strconv.AppendFloat(buf, value, 'f', -1, 64)
 }
 
 func appendBoolField(buf []byte, value bool) []byte {