[rrd-developers] Re: rrdtool (fwd)

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

> From: Richard A. Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>
> 
> Instead of having to go from:
>    CPRINT:inoctets:MIN:"%f"
> to
>    VDEF:inmin=inoctets,MIN
>    CPRINT:inmin:"%f"
> You should be able to do something like:
>    VPRINT:inoctets,MIN,8,*:"Bits %f"
> 
> Where MIN is a VDEF function and not a Consolidation Function, if I
> understand this system correctly. The goal is to eliminate unnecessary
> creation of a vname and thus avoid a cluttered namespace.

I disagree on this (which doesn't make it wrong!) because PRINT is
not doing any calculations and IMHO it should stay that way.  What
do others think please?

Another way of aproaching this problem is to allow an RPN string
everywhere a variable is allowed now, this wouldn't make the xPRINT
series an exception.

> And just to throw in a bug report, there is a mismatch between the
> rrdgraph_examples(1) manpage and reality, the PERCENTILE command is
> documented as 95,name,PERCENTILE when in actuality it is
> name,95,PERCENTILE.

Oops :)

cheers,
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