Propose InfluxQL syntax additions

WIP
We also need some format to create retention policies on existing databases

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Ben Johnson <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In QUERIES.md
> <https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/1270#discussion-diff-22328172>:
>
> > @@ -1,5 +1,31 @@
> >  The top level name is called a measurement. These names can contain any characters. Then there are field names, field values, tag keys and tag values, which can also contain any characters. Because of this, anywhere a measurement name, field name, field value, tag name, or tag value appears should be able to get wrapped in double quotes to deal with special characters.
> >
> > +# Databases
> > +
> > +```sql
> > +-- create a database
> > +CREATE DATABASE <name> (WITH [DEFAULT] RETENTION POLICY <rp-name> ...)+
>
> Yeah, I can't think of any better format. :)
>
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