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ListenBrainz dev here. We wanted stuff like the ability to do stuff like "DELETE FROM measurement where field = blah" and that support didn't exist last time we looked. [0]

Another thing that's not mentioned in the post but was a pain point for us was that it's not easy to query for fields with "null" values [1].

I figure a lot of our pain might be because we're not as good at Influx as we are at PostgreSQL. We've been running MusicBrainz[2] for ~18 years on PostgreSQL, that knowledge will hopefully transfer over a little with Timescale.

[0]: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/3210

[1]: https://github.com/influxdata/docs.influxdata.com/issues/717

[2]: https://musicbrainz.org

True, deleting by value does not seem to be possible. I can see how that would be painful if it's necessary for your use case.

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