Query with hyphen fails when redirected to another node

[IngaFeick]

Hi,
we have a setup of a couple of influxdb nodes in a small cluster and would like to run a query which is supposed to pull data from only one shard. When I run the query in the admin panel on the same server that the shard lives on, the query works fine. I get the data that I expect. When I send the same query to another node in the cluster, which does not have the respective data shard, I can observe two things:

1. the admin panel returns the error message "Cannot find user root" (which is faulty in itself because I'm logged in as root)
2. more importantly: in the log on the shard having the desired data, the following error message regarding a hyphen somewhere in the query pops up:

[2014/10/29 16:10:11 CET] [DEBG] 
(github.com/influxdb/influxdb/coordinator.(*ProtobufServer).handleReques 
t:123) Received id:35840 type:QUERY database:"foobar_metrics" shard_id:1 
query:"select median(value) from 
springfield04.statsd.gauge-PS.0.gc.ps_old_gen.memory_used_before_kb 
merge 
springfield04.statsd.gauge-PS.250.gc.g1_old_gen.memory_used_before_kb 
where (time < 1414515424000000000) AND (time > 1414501024000000000) 
group by time(30s) order asc" user_name:"root" is_db_user:true 
[2014/10/29 16:10:11 CET] [EROR] 
(github.com/influxdb/influxdb/coordinator. 
(*ProtobufRequestHandler).handleQuery:75) Error parsing query: %!(EXTRA 
*parser.QueryError=Error at -469359824:52 -469359824:53. syntax error, 
unexpected '-', expecting $end) 

The issue is reproducible. We are running version 0.8.4 rc1. Please let me know if I can provide any further details. Thank you!

[jvshahid]

favoring this issue over #1061 since it's more thorough and explains the issue

[toddboom]

The clustering and sharding code are being completely rewritten for v0.9.0, so this is no longer actionable. Closing it out.