Ah yes, that was also confusing things: I was getting so many results for

SELECT * FROM file where path like "%%"

because it was including the working directory. It wasn’t actually including all files. There is still seemingly a difference between

file

and

extended_attributes

globbing behaviour though. On a fairly clean test VM: •

select count(*) from file where path like "/%%"

returns 3432 •

select count(*) from extended_attributes where path like "/%%"

returns only 69