How can I prevent pgfplots from rendering lines incorrectly when I use “no markers”?

I plot tabular data wherein none of the y-values of the data go above 1.0. In the resulting plot, however, there are a couple of peaks that go beyond 1.0, giving a false impression about those data points:

This is not visible when I plot with marks, but I need to use "no marks" because it is otherwise far too busy (80 points in a small plot).

How can I prevent this?

Update: Per Jake's request, here's a minimal example that shows the described behaviour:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[ht]
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[no markers, grid=major]
(1, 0.8823529412)
(2, 0.8750000000)
(3, 1.0000000000)
(4, 0.8666666667)
(80, 0.0000000000)}[thick];
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}
\end{document}


The problem is less pronounced when I don't make my lines thick, but it is still there (and I want thick lines).

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I tried reproducing this, but didn't succeed: For me, the sharp corners are always correctly drawn as bevel joins. Could you post a full minimal example that shows the described behaviour? –  Jake Apr 13 '11 at 6:16
@Jake: Yes; thanks for taking a look. –  shino Apr 13 '11 at 13:47

There are a couple of ways you can avoid this: You can either tell pgfplots to use round corners or beveled corners for all corners by supplying the option line join=round or line join=bevel to the axis or to individual plots, or you can lower the threshold for when the join type changes from mitered to beveled by using miter limit=<value> (10 is the default).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[ht]
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[no markers,grid=major,every axis plot post/.append style={thick}]
\addplot  coordinates{(0, 0.0) (0, 0.9) (1, 0.9) (2, 1) (3, 0.9) (80, 0)};
\addplot +[line join=round] coordinates{(0, 0.0) (0, 0.9) (2, 0.9) (3, 1) (4, 0.9) (80, 0)};
\addplot +[line join=bevel] coordinates{(0, 0.0) (0, 0.9) (3, 0.9) (4, 1) (5, 0.9) (80, 0)};
\addplot +[miter limit=5] coordinates{(0, 0.0) (0, 0.9) (4, 0.9) (5, 1) (6, 0.9) (80, 0)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}
\end{document}


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Worked like a charm, thanks a lot! :) –  shino Apr 13 '11 at 15:42
If you don't mind, I will copy-paste this example to the pgfplots manual... –  Christian Feuersänger Apr 21 '11 at 19:25
@christian: By all means, please do! –  Jake Apr 22 '11 at 11:01