On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:19:21PM +0100, Patric Bechtel wrote:
> Just guess: We have bigint id's through the system, so I want to give
> the users the convenience of typing only the last 4-5 digits (which most
> of the time is enough). So the query we issue really is
> ... like "%$userinput"
>
> Makes sense, or?
It surely makes sense - in your environment - but it's not
the only interpretation so PG tries to be impartial and
makes both of us say clearly what we want.
Karsten
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