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Re: [SQL] SELECT Command? Messed again?

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: forsyth@wchat.on.ca (Daniel W. Forsyth)
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-06-01T21:37:31Z
Lists: pgsql-sql 
> 
> Hi there, I'm currently using 6.3.
> 
> When I issue the command SELECT * FROM client_database WHERE client ~~
> '%%' it displays nobody, when i use 6.1 it works fine, as %% or %%%%
> defaults to every entry? Does anyone know what is going on?
> 
> PS: Please help, the companies client database is quite important :-).
> 

Actually, % is all that is needed.  %% is actually a single %, I think. 
I had it wrong in earlier version, but it was fixed in 6.something.

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