# How does InfluxDB handle duplicate points?

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**Created:** [April 24, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-does-influxdb-handle-duplicate-points/696 "2017-04-24T18:34:22Z")\
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The field is FileName.

time (s), fname  
1, file1  
1, file2  
1, file3

I am using influx to log my file uploads. Generally the tags are the same but the fields are different and they can be uploaded quickly. The problem disappears if I turn the precision to `us` but this is not really a guarantee.

All I need is for influx to log everything I send it, regardless of it being the same time. I can understand if the tag set AND the field set were exactly the same at the same second, but in my case it’s the fields that are different. And I would hate to ruin my index by putting in filenames. The db would be useless after I posted a million files.

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