Github user kliewkliew commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/phoenix/pull/200#discussion_r77374014 --- Diff: phoenix-core/src/main/java/org/apache/phoenix/compile/ExpressionCompiler.java --- @@ -517,8 +518,13 @@ public Expression visitLeave(LikeParseNode node, List<Expression> children) thro return new ComparisonExpression(Arrays.asList(lhs,rhs), op); } } - } else if (index == 0 && pattern.length() == 1) { - return IsNullExpression.create(lhs, true, context.getTempPtr()); + } else { + byte[] nullExpressionString = new byte[pattern.length()]; + byte[] wildcard = {StringUtil.MULTI_CHAR_LIKE}; + StringUtil.fill(nullExpressionString, 0, pattern.length(), wildcard, 0, 1, false); + if (pattern.equals(new String (nullExpressionString))) { --- End diff -- I guess that it is unlikely enough that a user would submit a query with `~ LIKE '%%'` instead of `~ LIKE '%'` that it isn't worth the overhead of covering that case. I did that in revision 53242fdb31c23879a9ae13ef6f429d585c35b307 with `pattern.equals(Character.toString(StringUtil.MULTI_CHAR_LIKE))` and tested it. That revision works if you would like to commit that.
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