From bc929ce4635d4de62b157132bc540076e4b23758 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Massimo DiPierro <massimodipierro@me.(none)>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 16:52:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fixed issue 799, thanks hi21alt

---
 VERSION      | 2 +-
 gluon/dal.py | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 15d23283..d35eebd7 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.00.0 (2012-05-16 16:45:06) dev
+Version 2.00.0 (2012-05-16 16:52:05) dev
diff --git a/gluon/dal.py b/gluon/dal.py
index 797c593f..354384f2 100644
--- a/gluon/dal.py
+++ b/gluon/dal.py
@@ -6164,7 +6164,8 @@ def smart_query(fields,text):
                 value = constants[item[1:]]
             else:
                 value = item
-                if op == '=': op = 'like'
+                if field.type in ('text','string'): 
+                    if op == '=': op = 'like'
             if op == '=': new_query = field==value
             elif op == '<': new_query = field<value
             elif op == '>': new_query = field>value