Re: Regression in 8.3?

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Karsten Hilbert schrieb am 12.11.2007 13:07:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:46:58AM +0100, Patric Bechtel wrote:
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>> select * from bla where a like '8%'
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> Patrick, I'm not sure what you expect to come back:
>
> 8 ? 0.08 ?
>
> 8% of each of bla.a's values ?
>
> do 7% or 9% count, too ? ("a like '8%'" seems to say "well,
> about 8% of a, or close, anyways").
>
> IOW, it is not entirely clear and thus the server forces us
> to make a choice and not second-guess our intentions.
>
> Karsten

Just guess: We have bigint id's through the system, so I want to give
the users the convenience of typing only the last 4-5 digits (which most
of the time is enough). So the query we issue really is
... like "%$userinput"

Makes sense, or?

Patric
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