Prabakaran,
> I am a newbie to PostgreSQL and was wondering about the following > behaviour. pgsql-hackers is not the appropriate list for this kind of question. In the future, please post to pgsql-novice, pgsql-sql, or pgsql-general with this kind of question. Thanks. > Can you please help me understand why 'LIKE' does not use implicit cast > ? Like uses the operator class "text_pattern_ops" which doesn't include an implict cast. For one thing, the implicit cast is from text --> integer, not the other way around, and there is no LIKE operator for integers. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers