From 49319fbdea67bb4baa5c8c7275522bb8080cfe9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Klemm <sven@timescale.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 13:21:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] prefill editor with first metric table

---
 public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/meta_query.ts |  2 +-
 public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/query_ctrl.ts | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/meta_query.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/meta_query.ts
index 756e612142f..eefe011586d 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/meta_query.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/meta_query.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export class PostgresMetaQuery {
   }
 
   findMetricTable() {
-    // query that returns first table found that has a timestamptz column and a float column
+    // query that returns first table found that has a timestamp(tz) column and a float column
     let query = `
 SELECT
 	table_name,
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/query_ctrl.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/query_ctrl.ts
index 8bd61a59493..1fc39dc6010 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/query_ctrl.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/postgres/query_ctrl.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ export class PostgresQueryCtrl extends QueryCtrl {
         this.target.rawSql = 'SELECT 1';
       } else {
         this.target.rawSql = defaultQuery;
+        this.datasource.metricFindQuery(this.metaBuilder.findMetricTable()).then(result => {
+          if (result.length > 0) {
+            this.target.table = result[0].text;
+            this.tableSegment = uiSegmentSrv.newSegment(this.target.table);
+            this.target.timeColumn = result[1].text;
+            this.timeColumnSegment = uiSegmentSrv.newSegment(this.target.timeColumn);
+            this.target.timeColumnType = 'timestamp';
+            this.target.select = [[{ type: 'column', params: [result[2].text] }]];
+            this.updateProjection();
+            this.panelCtrl.refresh();
+          }
+        });
       }
     }