Re: [BUGS] General Bug Report: prefix stringsearch doesn't return results

>>>>> "Oleg" == Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> writes:

Oleg> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Unprivileged user wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 07:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Unprivileged user <nobody(at)hub(dot)org>
>> Reply-To: Josef Moser <jmoser(at)iicm(dot)edu>
>> To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
>> Subject: [BUGS] General Bug Report: prefix stringsearch doesn't return results
>>
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>> Your name : Josef Moser
>> Your email address : jmoser(at)iicm(dot)edu
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>> Category : runtime: back-end: SQL
>> Severity : serious
>>
>> Summary: prefix stringsearch doesn't return results
>>

Oleg> Hmm,
Oleg> 15:59[mira]:~/app/egcs/obj>psql test
Oleg> Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:
Oleg> Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL
Oleg> [PostgreSQL 6.5.0 on i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66]

Oleg> type \? for help on slash commands
Oleg> type \q to quit
Oleg> type \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
Oleg> You are currently connected to the database: test

Oleg> test=> CREATE TABLE bug_t(word TEXT);
Oleg> CREATE
Oleg> test=> INSERT INTO bug_t VALUES('hello1');
Oleg> INSERT 60937 1
Oleg> test=> INSERT INTO bug_t VALUES('hello2');
Oleg> INSERT 60938 1
Oleg> test=> SELECT * FROM bug_t where word like 'hello%';
Oleg> word
Oleg> ------
Oleg> hello1
Oleg> hello2
Oleg> (2 rows)
Oleg> test=> SELECT * FROM bug_t where word like '%hello%';
Oleg> word
Oleg> ------
Oleg> hello1
Oleg> hello2
Oleg> (2 rows)

Oleg> No problem. This is Linux x86, 2.0.36, 6.5 current

Oleg> Regards,
Oleg> Oleg

hmm......

121>psql test
Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:
Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL
[PostgreSQL 6.5.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.60]

type \? for help on slash commands
type \q to quit
type \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
You are currently connected to the database: test

test=> CREATE TABLE bug_t(word TEXT);
CREATE
test=> INSERT INTO bug_t VALUES('hello1');
INSERT 18633 1
test=> INSERT INTO bug_t VALUES('hello2');
INSERT 18634 1
test=> SELECT * FROM bug_t where word like 'hello%';
word
----
(0 rows)

test=> SELECT * FROM bug_t where word like '%hello%';
word
------
hello1
hello2
(2 rows)

Suppositions

Empty directories (I deleted all old postgres versions and all databases....)
postgres snapshot from
ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql.snapshot.tar.gz
(dir says: -rw-r--r-- 1 1005 root 5969878 May 28 03:06
postgresql.snapshot.tar.gz)

uname -a
Linux xfind 2.2.7 #4 SMP Tue May 4 14:21:58 MEST 1999 i686 unknown

libc:
/lib/libc.so.6

ENVIRONMENT:
nearly bare...

PATH=/usr/lib/pgsql_6.5/bin/:/usr/bin/:/bin/

POSTMASTER command: postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql_6.5/data/

Any hints where I sould start debugging would be greatly appreciated.

Ciao and Thanks

Joe