I got a table holding tv air time but I got a unexpected (to me) behaviour. Using like, I do not get the recordset I'd like. I've installed it using mac-ports on an old mac-mini, ppc I'd expect to see the same rows with wildcard, as I see without, see below Or is it just beeing late, and me being blind? eyetv=# select version(); version ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- PostgreSQL 8.4.4 on powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0, compiled by GCC powerpc-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493) , 32-bit (1 row) Time: 0.724 ms eyetv=# select * from programmes where title like 'Star Wars'; start | stop | channel | title | category | episode | description ---------------------+---------------------+--------------+----------- +----------+--------------------------+--------------- 2010-09-04 19:00:00 | 2010-09-04 19:30:00 | tv400.tv4.se | Star Wars | series | Del 7 av 22 säsong 2009 | Del 7 av 22. 2010-09-04 19:30:00 | 2010-09-04 20:00:00 | tv400.tv4.se | Star Wars | series | Del 8 av 22 säsong 2009 | Del 8 av 22. 2010-09-05 23:50:00 | 2010-09-06 00:20:00 | tv400.tv4.se | Star Wars | series | Del 7 av 22 säsong 2009 | Del 7 av 22. 2010-09-06 00:20:00 | 2010-09-06 00:45:00 | tv400.tv4.se | Star Wars | series | Del 8 av 22 säsong 2009 | Del 8 av 22. 2010-09-11 19:00:00 | 2010-09-11 19:30:00 | tv400.tv4.se | Star Wars | series | Del 9 av 22 säsong 2009 | Del 9 av 22. 2010-09-11 19:30:00 | 2010-09-11 20:00:00 | tv400.tv4.se | Star Wars | series | Del 10 av 22 säsong 2009 | Del 10 av 22. 2010-08-28 19:00:00 | 2010-08-28 19:30:00 | tv400.tv4.se | Star Wars | series | Del 5 av 22 säsong 2009 | Del 5 av 22. 2010-08-28 19:30:00 | 2010-08-28 20:00:00 | tv400.tv4.se | Star Wars | series | Del 6 av 22 säsong 2009 | Del 6 av 22. 2010-08-29 23:40:00 | 2010-08-30 00:10:00 | tv400.tv4.se | Star Wars | series | Del 5 av 22 säsong 2009 | Del 5 av 22. 2010-08-30 00:10:00 | 2010-08-30 00:40:00 | tv400.tv4.se | Star Wars | series | Del 6 av 22 säsong 2009 | Del 6 av 22. (10 rows) Time: 108.087 ms eyetv=# select * from programmes where title like 'Star*'; start | stop | channel | title | category | episode | description -------+------+---------+-------+----------+---------+------------- (0 rows) Time: 82.176 ms eyetv=# \d programmes Table "public.programmes" Column | Type | Modifiers -------------+-----------------------------+----------- start | timestamp without time zone | not null stop | timestamp without time zone | not null channel | text | not null title | text | not null category | text | episode | text | description | text | Indexes: "programmes_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (start, stop, channel) eyetv=# /Björn -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general