Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: Incorrect search using 'select .... like ...' statement.

> Sometimes expresion like 'select a from b where a like 'abc%';' gives
> null result, while 'select a from b where a like 'abcd%';' gives
> right result (several records). In some case first expression
> gives some result but it doesn't contains result of the second
> one... But expresion '... like 'ab%';' gives result containing
> results of the first an the second.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Test Case:
> ----------
> All fields I tried contain russian characters (there was some
> fields with english characters but I don't find such error with them)
>
>
> example:
>
> vkuzmina=> select tit from cvcat where lower(tit) like '%';
> tit
> -----------------
>
> (1 row)
>
> vkuzmina=> select tit from cvcat where lower(tit) like '%';
> tit
> ---
> (0 rows)
>
> vkuzmina=> select tit from cvcat where lower(tit) like '%';
> tit
> -----------------
>
> (1 row)
>
> vkuzmina=> select tit from cvcat where tit like '%';
> tit
> -----------------
>
> (1 row)
>
> vkuzmina=> select tit from cvcat where tit like '%';
> tit
> ---
> (0 rows)
>
> vkuzmina=> select tit from cvcat where tit like '%';
> tit
> -----------------
>
> (1 row)
>

We have some problems with international characters sets and index
usage. Someone else will probably give a better answer.

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