Line protocol does not require or allow escaping of backslash, the only
requirement for a byte to be escaped is if it is an escapable char and
preceeded immediately by a slash.
(cherry picked from commit 945446b36f)
This was broken by changes in go 1.8 to url.Parse. This change allows
the string but prompts the user to move to the correct url string.
(cherry picked from commit b277e6e2d7)
Metrics needing one extra byte to fit the output buffer would not be split, so we would emit lines without a line ending. Metrics which overflowed by exactly one field length would be split one field too late, causing truncated fields.
(cherry picked from commit a275e6792a)
Daniel Nelson