| From: | Vit Pavlik <vpavlik(at)securities(dot)cz> | 
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| To: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | LIKE on index bug | 
| Date: | 2000-11-29 17:55:07 | 
| Message-ID: | 3A2542FB.C6AF975D@securities.cz | 
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I have problem with LIKE operator when index scan is used. When I use
pattern with space just before '%' character (e.g. 'Line %'), I get bad results.
For example:
test=# create table test ( a int, b varchar(20));
CREATE
test=# create index test_b on test(b);
CREATE
test=# create function fill_table () returns int as '
test'# declare
test'#   i int4;
test'# begin
test'#   for i in 1..1000 loop
test'#     insert into test values( i, ''Line ''||i );
test'#   end loop;
test'#   return 1;
test'# end;
test'# ' language 'plpgsql';
CREATE
test=# select fill_table();
 fill_table 
------------
          1
(1 row)
test=# vacuum verbose analyze test;
NOTICE:  --Relation test--
NOTICE:  Pages 7: Changed 7, reaped 0, Empty 0, New 0; Tup 1000: Vac 0, Keep/VTL 0/0, Crash 0, UnUsed 0, MinLen 46, MaxLen 49;
Re-using: Free/Avail. Space 0/0; EndEmpty/Avail. Pages 0/0. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec.
NOTICE:  Index test_b: Pages 7; Tuples 1000. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec.
VACUUM
test=# select * from test where b like 'Line 99%';
  a  |    b     
-----+----------
  99 | Line 99
 990 | Line 990
 991 | Line 991
 992 | Line 992
 993 | Line 993
 994 | Line 994
 995 | Line 995
 996 | Line 996
 997 | Line 997
 998 | Line 998
 999 | Line 999
(11 rows)
test=# select * from test where b like 'Line %';
 a | b 
---+---
(0 rows)
*********** This is not correct output 
test=# 
I am running 7.0.3-2 on RedHat 7.0. You can use script attached to reproduce this problem.
Regards
Vit Pavlik
Database engineer
Internet securities
Prague
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size | 
|---|---|---|
| likebug.sql | text/plain | 431 bytes | 
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