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Documentation regarding operator precedence incorrect for LIKE, REGEXP, IN?
Posted by: Justin Ng
Date: June 12, 2021 01:29PM

I'm looking at MySQL 5.7,
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/operator-precedence.html

It says the following have the same precedence,

```
= (comparison), <=>, >=, >, <=, <, <>, !=, IS, LIKE, REGEXP, IN
```

It also says,

> For operators that occur at the same precedence level within an expression, evaluation proceeds left to right

This would suggest that `a = b LIKE c` should be parsed as `(a = b) LIKE c`.
However, it is actually parsed as `a = (b LIKE c)`

The reason is because of the following,
```
predicate:
...
| bit_expr LIKE simple_expr opt_escape
...
| bit_expr
```

```
bool_pri:
...
| bool_pri comp_op predicate %prec EQ
...
| predicate
```

https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/blob/5c8c085ba96d30d697d0baa54d67b102c232116b/sql/sql_yacc.yy#L9376

https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/blob/5c8c085ba96d30d697d0baa54d67b102c232116b/sql/sql_yacc.yy#L9308

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In order to parse as `('a' = 'a') LIKE '0'`, we would need a rule like,

```
predicate:
...
| bool_pri LIKE simple_expr opt_escape
```

because `'a' = 'a'` is a `bool_pri`.

However, there is no such rule.

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