HSQL execute condition LIKE ANY - sql

Question

I'm trying to execute an SQL statement, with a where clause that does something like:
WHERE col LIKE ANY (values...)
According to the HSQLDB documentation it seems to me that I should be able to do it:
condition
{ ...
| value [NOT] LIKE value [ESCAPE] value }
value
[+ | -] { term [{ + | - | * | / | || } term]
| ( condition )
| function ( [parameter] [,...] )
| selectStatement giving one value
| {ANY|ALL} (selectStatement giving single column)
However, this does not seem to work.
I can execute this:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE col LIKE (selectStatement giving 1 column with single value)
But any of these will give me an error:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE col LIKE (selectStatement giving 1 column with multiple values)
-> cardinality violation
SELECT * FROM table WHERE col LIKE ANY (selectStatement giving 1 column with single value)
SELECT * FROM table WHERE col LIKE ANY (selectStatement giving 1 column with multiple values)
-> unexpected token: SELECT
Can you help me understand what I'm doing wrong?
Is this not supported, or am I misunderstanding the documentation?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Depending on what you want to achieve, you can use the following:
This query uses the value returned by the subquery for LIKE comparison. The value normally has a escape character, for example super%, which matches all words beginning with super:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE col LIKE (selectStatement giving 1 column with single value)
This query uses the values returned by the subquery as a list. Each of the list values is compared to the col value and when the first exact match is found, the result is true. This type of query is used to return a subset of the rows from the table that have a value that is in the list returned by the subquery:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE col = ANY (selectStatement giving 1 column with multiple values)

Answer 2

I am late to the game here, but would like to add the idea of a colleague of mine to use EXISTS() to allow multiple LIKE/ILIKE conditions.
So that query simulates the "x LIKE ANY('{}')"
SELECT
tables.table_name
FROM
information_schema.tables
WHERE
EXISTS(SELECT *
FROM
UNNEST (ARRAY['a%', 'b%', 'c%']) AS t(like_value)
WHERE
LOWER(tables.table_name) LIKE LOWER(like_value))
ORDER BY
tables.table_name
is equivalent to that in Postgresql
SELECT
tables.table_name
FROM
information_schema.tables
WHERE
tables.table_name ILIKE ANY ('{a%, b%, c%}')
ORDER BY
tables.table_name
Additionally, if you would like to use that from Java using prepared statements and to prevent Hsqldb from throwing a "General error" you have to cast the placeholder like so:
SELECT
tables.table_name
FROM
information_schema.tables
WHERE
EXISTS(SELECT *
FROM
UNNEST (CAST(? as VARCHAR(2048) ARRAY)) AS t(like_value)
WHERE
LOWER(tables.table_name) LIKE LOWER(like_value))
ORDER BY
tables.table_name