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Operation was attempted past the valid range

Error message

Operation was attempted past the valid range: {0}

What it means

The `Error::OutOfRange` variant, wrapping a `ServerError<()>`. Raised when the operation was attempted past the valid range, mirroring gRPC's OUT_OF_RANGE status — a value was outside the acceptable domain for the operation.

Solutions

1. Clamp or validate numeric values (timestamps, limits, offsets) against documented server limits before the call.
2. Fix data upstream that carries out-of-range values (bad timestamps are the usual culprit).
3. Adjust pagination logic to stop when results are exhausted rather than computing further offsets.
4. Check server configuration for range limits and align client-side bounds with them.

Example fix

// before
let ts = 0i64; // epoch 0, out of allowed range
client.write(ns, data_with_timestamp(ts)).await?;
// after
let ts = data.timestamp;
assert!(ts > 0 && ts <= MAX_TS, "timestamp {ts} out of range");
client.write(ns, data).await?;

fn validate_range(ts: i64) -> Result<i64, String> {
    if ts <= 0 || ts > MAX_VALID_TS { return Err(format!("timestamp {ts} out of range")); }
    Ok(ts)
}

fn is_out_of_range(e: &Error) -> bool { matches!(e, Error::OutOfRange(_)) }

match result {
    Err(Error::OutOfRange(se)) => { eprintln!("value out of range: {se}"); Err(anyhow!("range violation")) }
    other => other,
}

When it happens

Trigger: Querying or writing data outside supported bounds: timestamps outside allowed ranges, offset/limit parameters beyond allowed values, partition keys or sequence values exceeding server limits.

Common situations: Ingesting data with epoch-0 or far-future timestamps, pagination loops that run past the last page with invalid offsets, time-range filters outside the server's representable range.

Understand the failure class

Background: "value must be between 0 and 1" / "out of range" / "must not be negative" errors: fixing range-validation failures across open-source libraries — this error's family across 42 libraries.

Related errors

• Client specified an invalid argument
• {0}
• At least one field is required
• database name error
• Deadline expired before operation could complete

AI-assisted analysis of influxdata/influxdb@06200ef96b (2026-09-19). Data as JSON: /api/errors/0b4a7eb9de24a26d. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at core/influxdb_iox_client/src/client/error.rs:96

    #[error("{0}")]
    NotFound(Box<ServerError<NotFound>>),

    #[error("Some entity that we attempted to create already exists: {0}")]
    AlreadyExists(Box<ServerError<AlreadyExists>>),

    #[error("The caller does not have permission to execute the specified operation: {0}")]
    PermissionDenied(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Some resource has been exhausted: {0}")]
    ResourceExhausted(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("The system is not in a state required for the operation's execution: {0}")]
    FailedPrecondition(Box<ServerError<PreconditionViolation>>),

    #[error("The operation was aborted: {0}")]
    Aborted(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Operation was attempted past the valid range: {0}")]
    OutOfRange(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Operation is not implemented or supported: {0}")]
    Unimplemented(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Internal error: {0}")]
    Internal(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("The service is currently unavailable: {0}")]
    Unavailable(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Unrecoverable data loss or corruption: {0}")]
    DataLoss(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("The request does not have valid authentication credentials: {0}")]
    Unauthenticated(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Received an invalid response from the server: {0}")]

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