From be49fcfa5b4ee99ade9e0f02f30eea2988db259a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wangxinbo <momingkotoba@sina.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 16:52:56 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Allow writing non-numeric metric

---
 CHANGELOG.md         | 5 +++--
 output/clickhouse.go | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 88b42c3b..0bcb408c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
-#### Version 3.0.6 (TBD)
+#### Version 3.0.6 (2023-05-19)
 
 Improvements:
 
-- When idenfying new columns, also update the schema of tables that are part of a logical cluster 
+- When idenfying new columns, also update the schema of tables that are part of a logical cluster
+- Allow writing non-numeric type metric
 
 #### Version 3.0.5 (2023-05-12)
 
diff --git a/output/clickhouse.go b/output/clickhouse.go
index ab1a379e..50042b3e 100644
--- a/output/clickhouse.go
+++ b/output/clickhouse.go
@@ -283,9 +283,6 @@ func (c *ClickHouse) initSeriesSchema(conn clickhouse.Conn) (err error) {
 		if dim.Name == "__series_id" && dim.Type.Type == model.Int64 {
 			dimSerID = dim
 			c.Dims = append(c.Dims[:i], c.Dims[i+1:]...)
-		} else if dim.Type.Type == model.String {
-			c.Dims = append(c.Dims[:i], c.Dims[i+1:]...)
-			util.Logger.Warn("non-numeric type metric ignored", zap.String("metric name", dim.Name))
 		} else {
 			i++
 		}
@@ -441,7 +438,7 @@ func (c *ClickHouse) initSchema() (err error) {
 			}
 		}
 		if !withDistTable {
-			err = errors.Newf("Please create distributed table for %s in cluster '%s'.", c.seriesTbl, c.cfg.Clickhouse.Cluster)
+			err = errors.Newf("Please create distributed table for %s in cluster '%s'.", c.TableName, c.cfg.Clickhouse.Cluster)
 			return
 		}
 	}