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Over writing old with changed data

Asked by Carolyn Bray

If I put in data time and data value and then over-write the same metric time with a data value - have I double stored? Or over-written? Just want to understand the behind the scenes logic.
I believe the double-stored would mean that the retention time would be shorted since I've filled one of the points twice.

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Nicholas Leskiw (nleskiw) said : 		#1

Graphite overwrites data sent to the same timeslot. You will have only the second value sent stored in Graphite.

-Nick

On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Carolyn Bray <email address hidden> wrote:

> New question #218962 on Graphite:
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> If I put in data time and data value and then over-write the same metric time with a data value - have I double stored? Or over-written? Just want to understand the behind the scenes logic.
> I believe the double-stored would mean that the retention time would be shorted since I've filled one of the points twice.
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