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Bug in influx v1 shell: Values presented in a bad way depending on what format is used #526

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@elofu17

Summary:
Values larger than 999 999 should not be presented as "1.228442e+06" but "1228442.0000000000".

Info + how to reproduce:
I run the latest version of influx CLI on a Debian 11 machine (package: influxdb2-cli 2.7.3-1).

# influx version
Influx CLI dev (git: none) build_date: 2023-04-28T14:24:14Z

I run the v1 shell and connect to my InfluxDB v2 (also latest version, on the same Debian 11 machine).

# influx v1 shell
InfluxQL Shell dev
Connected to InfluxDB OSS v2.7.5
> use Main
> precision rfc3339
> format table
> SELECT * FROM disk ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 10;
Interactive Table View (press q to exit mode, shift+up/down to navigate tables):
Name: disk
┏━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ index ┃         time         ┃  device   ┃         free          ┃ fstype ┃      host      ┃    inodes_free     ┃    inodes_total    ┃    inodes_used    ┃ inodes_used_percent ┃ mode ┃ path ┃         total          ┃               >┃
┣━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━╋━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫
┃      1┃2024-03-05T12:09:30Z  ┃nvme0n1p1  ┃   961736704.0000000000┃ext4    ┃thengel2        ┃  1228442.0000000000┃  1302528.0000000000┃   74086.0000000000┃         5.6878623722┃rw    ┃/     ┃  20893278208.0000000000┃               >┃
┃      2┃2024-03-05T12:09:30Z  ┃nvme0n1p1  ┃  4836794368.0000000000┃ext4    ┃metricscentral  ┃   702767.0000000000┃   778240.0000000000┃   75473.0000000000┃         9.6979081003┃rw    ┃/     ┃  12442218496.0000000000┃               >┃
┃      3┃2024-03-05T12:09:30Z  ┃nvme0n1p1  ┃  7775858688.0000000000┃ext4    ┃puppet-master2  ┃  2074388.0000000000┃  2285568.0000000000┃  211180.0000000000┃         9.2397163418┃rw    ┃/     ┃  36742631424.0000000000┃               >┃
┃      4┃2024-03-05T12:09:00Z  ┃nvme0n1p1  ┃  4837105664.0000000000┃ext4    ┃metricscentral  ┃   702767.0000000000┃   778240.0000000000┃   75473.0000000000┃         9.6979081003┃rw    ┃/     ┃  12442218496.0000000000┃               >┃
┃      5┃2024-03-05T12:09:00Z  ┃nvme0n1p1  ┃  7776018432.0000000000┃ext4    ┃puppet-master2  ┃  2074388.0000000000┃  2285568.0000000000┃  211180.0000000000┃         9.2397163418┃rw    ┃/     ┃  36742631424.0000000000┃               >┃
┃      6┃2024-03-05T12:09:00Z  ┃nvme0n1p1  ┃   962936832.0000000000┃ext4    ┃thengel2        ┃  1228442.0000000000┃  1302528.0000000000┃   74086.0000000000┃         5.6878623722┃rw    ┃/     ┃  20893278208.0000000000┃               >┃
┃      7┃2024-03-05T12:08:30Z  ┃nvme0n1p1  ┃  7776190464.0000000000┃ext4    ┃puppet-master2  ┃  2074388.0000000000┃  2285568.0000000000┃  211180.0000000000┃         9.2397163418┃rw    ┃/     ┃  36742631424.0000000000┃               >┃
┃      8┃2024-03-05T12:08:30Z  ┃nvme0n1p1  ┃   963375104.0000000000┃ext4    ┃thengel2        ┃  1228442.0000000000┃  1302528.0000000000┃   74086.0000000000┃         5.6878623722┃rw    ┃/     ┃  20893278208.0000000000┃               >┃
┃      9┃2024-03-05T12:08:30Z  ┃nvme0n1p1  ┃  4845699072.0000000000┃ext4    ┃metricscentral  ┃   702767.0000000000┃   778240.0000000000┃   75473.0000000000┃         9.6979081003┃rw    ┃/     ┃  12442218496.0000000000┃               >┃
┃     10┃2024-03-05T12:08:00Z  ┃nvme0n1p1  ┃   963837952.0000000000┃ext4    ┃thengel2        ┃  1228442.0000000000┃  1302528.0000000000┃   74086.0000000000┃         5.6878623722┃rw    ┃/     ┃  20893278208.0000000000┃               >┃
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                                                                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Look att e.g. column 'indoes_free'. Everything looks good so far. :-)

Now, change format to column or csv and re-run the query:

> format column
> SELECT * FROM disk ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 10;
name: disk
time                 device    free            fstype host           inodes_free  inodes_total inodes_used inodes_used_percent mode path total            used             used_percent
----                 ------    ----            ------ ----           -----------  ------------ ----------- ------------------- ---- ---- -----            ----             ------------
2024-03-05T12:10:00Z nvme0n1p1 9.61327104e+08  ext4   thengel2       1.228442e+06 1.302528e+06 74086       5.687862372248428   rw   /    2.0893278208e+10 1.897701376e+10  95.17850000380051
2024-03-05T12:10:00Z nvme0n1p1 4.836651008e+09 ext4   metricscentral 702767       778240       75473       9.697908100328947   rw   /    1.2442218496e+10 6.99426816e+09   59.11855250366291
2024-03-05T12:10:00Z nvme0n1p1 7.7756416e+09   ext4   puppet-master2 2.074388e+06 2.285568e+06 211180      9.23971634184588    rw   /    3.6742631424e+10 2.7367825408e+10 77.87457453122093
2024-03-05T12:09:30Z nvme0n1p1 4.836794368e+09 ext4   metricscentral 702767       778240       75473       9.697908100328947   rw   /    1.2442218496e+10 6.9941248e+09    59.117340763493246
2024-03-05T12:09:30Z nvme0n1p1 7.775858688e+09 ext4   puppet-master2 2.074388e+06 2.285568e+06 211180      9.23971634184588    rw   /    3.6742631424e+10 2.736760832e+10  77.87395681185947
2024-03-05T12:09:30Z nvme0n1p1 9.61736704e+08  ext4   thengel2       1.228442e+06 1.302528e+06 74086       5.687862372248428   rw   /    2.0893278208e+10 1.897660416e+10  95.17644567037932
2024-03-05T12:09:00Z nvme0n1p1 7.776018432e+09 ext4   puppet-master2 2.074388e+06 2.285568e+06 211180      9.23971634184588    rw   /    3.6742631424e+10 2.7367448576e+10 77.87350226365008
2024-03-05T12:09:00Z nvme0n1p1 9.62936832e+08  ext4   thengel2       1.228442e+06 1.302528e+06 74086       5.687862372248428   rw   /    2.0893278208e+10 1.8975404032e+10 95.17042647345524
2024-03-05T12:09:00Z nvme0n1p1 4.837105664e+09 ext4   metricscentral 702767       778240       75473       9.697908100328947   rw   /    1.2442218496e+10 6.993813504e+09  59.11470955626768
2024-03-05T12:08:30Z nvme0n1p1 9.63375104e+08  ext4   thengel2       1.228442e+06 1.302528e+06 74086       5.687862372248428   rw   /    2.0893278208e+10 1.897496576e+10  95.16822833669455
                                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Now look at the numbers in the same column (and other columns).
With format column or csv I get ugly looking values, like "1.228442e+06".
Numbers larger than 999 999 seem to show up as "e+06".
When I swap back to format table or json I get sane looking values, like "1228442.0000000000".

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