Re: LIKE vs =

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:39:38AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm having some trouble with multibyte characters and LIKE. We've been
> using LIKE instead of = for string queries for a long time, as it gives
> us flexibility to use wildcards such as "%" when we need to and get the
> same results as with = by not using them. But I've just found that it
> sometimes doesn't work properly:
>
> bric=# select version();
> version
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------
> PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.2
> 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
> (1 row)
>
> bric=# select * from keyword where name = 'ºÏÇÑÀÇ';
> id | name | screen_name | sort_name | active
> ------+--------+-------------+-----------+--------
> 1218 | ±¹¹æºñ | ±¹¹æºñ | ±¹¹æºñ | 1
> (1 row)
>
> bric=# select * from keyword where name LIKE 'ºÏÇÑÀÇ';
> id | name | screen_name | sort_name | active
> ----+------+-------------+-----------+--------
> (0 rows)
>
> Any idea why = works here and LIKE wouldn't?

Does LIKE when you stick wildcards on the front & back of the
expression?

SELECT * FROM keyword WHERE name LIKE '%ºÏÇÑÀÇ%';

Cheers,
D
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