Question

The query:

SELECT users.* FROM "users" WHERE (lower(fname) || ' ' || lower(lname) LIKE '%jeff bat%') LIMIT 25

Does not return a user with fname: jeff and lname: bat

But if you run

SELECT users.* FROM "users" WHERE (lower(fname) || ' ' || lower(lname) LIKE '%jeff ba%') LIMIT 25

With one character off it does return that user. Why does the % LIKE not return exact matches? And how can I update the query to also include an exact match? Thanks

Answer 1

You should get the exact result by including trim function in your query like below

SELECT users.* FROM "users" WHERE (trim(lower(fname)) || ' ' || trim(lower(lname)) LIKE '%jeff ba%')