Fixed #6523 -- Use the correct cast on field types for PostgreSQL when

searching within a field column (e.g. "like", "contains", etc). Required for
PostgreSQL 8.3. Thanks to Dan Watson for the patch.


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@8242 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/django/db/backends/postgresql/operations.py b/django/db/backends/postgresql/operations.py
index ba6e3235c2..de7b5a9520 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/postgresql/operations.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/postgresql/operations.py
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ class DatabaseOperations(BaseDatabaseOperations):
     def deferrable_sql(self):
         return " DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED"
 
+    def lookup_cast(self, lookup_type):
+        if lookup_type in ('iexact', 'contains', 'icontains', 'startswith', 'istartswith',
+                             'endswith', 'iendswith'):
+            return "%s::text"
+        return "%s"
+
     def field_cast_sql(self, db_type):
         if db_type == 'inet':
             return 'HOST(%s)'