From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'pgsql/src/backend/parser gram.y' |
Date: | 1999-06-07 17:58:06 |
Message-ID: | 199906071758.NAA11869@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > DoMatch, which implements LIKE clearly thinks %% is %,
>
> Careful: DoMatch thinks %% is a wildcard (ie, same as %), not literal %.
>
> It's hard to say what our users think. If you'd written %% it would
> indeed match a % --- but you'd have a problem with it matching other
> stuff too. This might or might not be partially masked by the range
> conditions inserted by the parser. (But how long have we been doing
> that?)
Sorry. I see now. I was confused.
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