Axibase Time Series Database

Base ABNF Rules

Text Rules

; printable characters
; value must be enclosed in double quotes if it contains double-quote (") or equal (=) character
; inner double-quote must be escaped with another double quote
; t:"tag=name"=tag-value
; t:"tag""=name"=tag-value
NAME = NAME_QUOTED / 1*CHAR_SAFE

; printable and non-printable characters such as space, tab, line feed, carriage return
; value must be enclosed in double quotes if it contains double-quote ("), equal (=), or a non-printable character
; inner double-quote must be escaped with another double quote
; m:"my=message"
; m:"my message"
; m:"my
;       message"
VALUE = VALUE_QUOTED / 1*CHAR_SAFE

NAME_QUOTED = DQUOTE 1*(CHAR_SAFE / EQUAL / DQUOTE DQUOTE) DQUOTE

VALUE_QUOTED = DQUOTE 1*(CHAR_SAFE / EQUAL / DQUOTE DQUOTE / SPACE / CR / LF / TB) DQUOTE

BOOLEAN = "true" / "false" / DQUOTE ("true" / "false") DQUOTE

SPACE = %x20  ; space
MSP = 1*SPACE ; multiple spaces
DQUOTE = %x22 ; double-quote
EQUAL = %x3D  ; equal sign
CR = %x0D     ; carriage return
LF = %x0A     ; line feed
TB = %x09     ; tab

; printable character except double-quote (") and equal (=) characters
CHAR_SAFE = %x21 / %x23-3C / %x3E-7E / UNICODE
; Unicode character
; https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6531#section-3.3
UNICODE = %x80-FF / ; Latin-1 Supplement
          %x100-17F / ; Latin Extended-A
          %x370-3FF / ; Greek and Coptic
          %x400-4FF / ; Cyrillic
          %x500-52F / ; Cyrillic Supplement
          %x4E00-9FFF ; CJK Unified Ideographs

Date Rules

; ISO date defined in RFC-3339 Appendix-A.
; Format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSXX
; https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339#appendix-A
; UTC time zone (Z) = 2016-06-01T16:00:15.142Z
; Numeric time zone = 2016-06-01T12:00:15.142-04:00
ISO_DATE = date-time
; inhereted from /shared/timezone-abnf.md
TIMEZONE = time-zone-code

Number Rules

NUMBER = ["-"] (FRACTIONAL_NUMBER / REAL_NUMBER) / "NaN"
FRACTIONAL_NUMBER = ("0" / POSITIVE_INTEGER) ["." 1*DIGIT]
POSITIVE_INTEGER = %x31-39 *DIGIT
; "0" to "9"
DIGIT = %x30-39
; https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3642  4.  ASN.1 Built-in Types
REAL_NUMBER = MANTISSA EXPONENT
MANTISSA   = (POSITIVE_INTEGER [ "." *DIGIT ]) / ( "0." *"0" POSITIVE_INTEGER)
EXPONENT   = ["E"/"e"] ( "0" / ([ "-" ] POSITIVE_INTEGER))