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Confusion following crossover from PGSQL
Posted by: Alex Moen
Date: December 16, 2008 09:37AM

I'm gonna try posting here, even tho it looks like only about 50% of the posts ever get answered...

I am moving a database and website from PGSQL to MySQL. I am concerned with some searching anomalies that I have encountered with MySQL.

In the Postgres version, any and all searches of the database were performed by basically the same line:
select * from {table} where {colunm} ~* {data};

In MySQL, that would be:
select * from {table} where {column} LIKE {data};

This works for some but not all searches, and trying out the MATCH AGAINST words are also showing inconsistency. For instance:

Given a row with the following:
|oid | network | ip_address |asgnmt|comments|cont|hcd |
+-----------+------------------+---------------+------+--------+----+----+
|00000001999|192.168.000.000/24|192.168.000.001| NULL | modems |NULL|NULL|

select * from detail where match oid against ('00000001*' IN BOOLEAN MODE);
~snip~
1000 rows in set (0.04 sec)

select * from detail where oid like '00000001*';
Empty set (0.03 sec)

HOWEVER, given the same row structure:

select * from detail where match network against ('192.168.000.000/24' IN BOOLEAN MODE);
Empty set (0.02 sec)

select * from detail where network like '192.168.000.000/24';
~snip~
256 rows in set (0.02 sec)

All fields are varchar in this database.

Can someone please explain the glaring mutually-exclusive difference here? And why can't I use just one, as in Postgres?

Thanks,

Alex

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