Github user AakashPradeep commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/phoenix/pull/81#issuecomment-104047363 As per the SQL specification, LIKE only works with String data type (http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt search for "Like predicate") . If it has been set to PVarchar.isCoercible() that means anything which can be coerced to Varchar but is not varchar for example VarBinary and JSON, can also be used with "Like". IMHO Like should only work with Varhcar and char datatype and throw illegal data type error with other datatype arguments.
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