How “LIKE” by LONG VARCHAR?

Question

I had DB Vertica 8.0. Create schema WAREHOUSE with table include field by type LONG VARCHAR. Now I tried to execude SELECT for example

SELECT * FROM WAREHOUSE.ALL_EVENTS a 
WHERE 
a.original_data like '%d963%'

returned error

SQL Error [4286] [42883]: [Vertica][VJDBC](4286) ERROR: Operator does not exist: long varchar ~~ unknown
  [Vertica][VJDBC](4286) ERROR: Operator does not exist: long varchar ~~ unknown
    com.vertica.util.ServerException: [Vertica][VJDBC](4286) ERROR: Operator does not exist: long varchar ~~ unknown

In Oracle I used dbms_lob package for CLOB fields.

Vertica have simular package for LONG VARCHAR types?

How "LIKE" by LONG VARCHAR?

Answer 1

Vertica documentation about LONG datatypes, in either version 7.1 or 8.0 states:

Notes

For optimal performance of LONG data types, HP Vertica recommends that you:

• Use the LONG data types as storage only containers; HP Vertica does not support operations on their content.
• Use the VARBINARY and VARCHAR data types, instead of their LONG counterparts, whenever possible. The VARBINARY and VARCHAR data types are more flexible and have a wider range of operations.

VARCHAR datatype supports up to 65K bytes long strings. You could use that instead, if the data are not longer.

Answer 2

You can use REGEXP_LIKE instead of LIKE. Refer to the Reference Page and this Stackoverflow answer of similar question. However you may not use % or _ simple wildcard which supported by LIKE operator. In order to find more complex case, you should know about Regular Expressions.