From 022508647fc51dca5a7bb35c3a746073530797dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryan Boreham <bryan@weave.works>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:35:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Return a NopIterator when bigchunk is empty

Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bryan@weave.works>
---
 pkg/chunk/encoding/bigchunk.go | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkg/chunk/encoding/bigchunk.go b/pkg/chunk/encoding/bigchunk.go
index 0282c08e997..b028d6e8ab0 100644
--- a/pkg/chunk/encoding/bigchunk.go
+++ b/pkg/chunk/encoding/bigchunk.go
@@ -170,9 +170,15 @@ func (b *bigchunk) Size() int {
 }
 
 func (b *bigchunk) NewIterator() Iterator {
+	var it chunkenc.Iterator
+	if len(b.chunks) > 0 {
+		it = b.chunks[0].Iterator()
+	} else {
+		it = chunkenc.NewNopIterator()
+	}
 	return &bigchunkIterator{
 		bigchunk: b,
-		curr:     b.chunks[0].Iterator(),
+		curr:     it,
 	}
 }