Re: Weird "LIKE" behaviour

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-
> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Andy Chambers
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 4:17 PM
> To: pgsql
> Subject: [GENERAL] Weird "LIKE" behaviour
>
> Below are two queries that should be pretty much the same but with the
> first one, I'm trying to boil it down to a minimal test-case so I don't
have to
> export the table definition of dcm.providers.  The first one returns
nothing
> but at least executes the query.
>
> => create table foo ( foo text );
> => select * from foo where foo like 'FOO%\'
>
> The second one fails to execute the query...
>
> => select * from dcm.providers where lname like 'FOO%\'
> ERROR:  LIKE pattern must not end with escape character
>
> Our server is 9.1.4 and can reproduce this behaviour with either 8.4 or
9.1
> clients.
>

The only part of the table "dcm.providers" that should matter is the data
type of the "lname" column - which you have not provided.

David J.