Subject: Re: What should this query match?
From: Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: "Pgsql-sql@postgresql.org" <Pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:09:22 +0200
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On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 12:48 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> These queries should return the same answer if the query does not contain the 
> value 'Jan%' (or differently capitalized versions).  I suspect that you are 
> actually attempting to use % as a wild card, but none of your queries use a 
> pattern matching operator, so I'd go back and check if your queries really 
> are what you think they should be.
Indeed, I am looking for a wildcard query, getting all records that are
smaller than lowercase Jan*. From your remark I gather that this is not
the correct syntax ;-).

Could you give me an example? I understand that the following query
returns all matches but I want everything smalle than the match

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM prototype.customers 
WHERE lower(lastName) ilike 'jan%' 

TIA
-- 
Groeten,

Joost Kraaijeveld
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