Re: What should this query match?

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 12:48 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> These queries should return the same answer if the query does not contain the
> value 'Jan%' (or differently capitalized versions). I suspect that you are
> actually attempting to use % as a wild card, but none of your queries use a
> pattern matching operator, so I'd go back and check if your queries really
> are what you think they should be.
Indeed, I am looking for a wildcard query, getting all records that are
smaller than lowercase Jan*. From your remark I gather that this is not
the correct syntax ;-).

Could you give me an example? I understand that the following query
returns all matches but I want everything smalle than the match

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM prototype.customers
WHERE lower(lastName) ilike 'jan%'

TIA
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Groeten,

Joost Kraaijeveld
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