Re: Inconsistency with LIKE and SIMILAR TO - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: Inconsistency with LIKE and SIMILAR TO
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Msg-id AANLkTikt5esJ1LEVRWDalQh70iK9S9fi1zUiMqeYvZ6C@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Inconsistency with LIKE and SIMILAR TO  (Rosiński Krzysztof 2 - Detal TP<Krzysztof.Rosinski2@telekomunikacja.pl>)
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2010/6/15 Rosiński Krzysztof 2 - Detal TP <Krzysztof.Rosinski2@telekomunikacja.pl>
Hello.

Operators LIKE and SIMILAR TO work differently
This query works ok.:

SELECT *
 FROM www.test
 WHERE expr like any (ARRAY['a','b']);

But this not work:

SELECT *
 FROM www.test
 WHERE expr similar to any (ARRAY['a','b']);

ERROR:  syntax error at or near "any"
LINE 3:   WHERE expr similar to any (ARRAY['a','b']);

Is this shouldn't works ?


SIMILAR TO and LIKE aren't synonyms for each other.  SIMILAR TO uses a cross between LIKE syntax and regular expressions for the evalutated expression.  I'm not entirely sure what your query is supposed to be doing.  I thought ANY was a keyword denoting a row-wise comparison?

Thom

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