diff --git a/packaging/cfg/taos.cfg b/packaging/cfg/taos.cfg
index 0e28d8b43c8e205fe9d4aea20d40d16cc85f986a..3ae4e9941e96abb4c93b99ae86c40b3e3583bd08 100644
--- a/packaging/cfg/taos.cfg
+++ b/packaging/cfg/taos.cfg
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ keepColumnName            1
 # max length of an SQL
 # maxSQLLength          65480
 
-# max length of like
-# maxLikeLength         100
+# max length of WildCards
+# maxWildCardsLength    100
 
 # the maximum number of records allowed for super table time sorting
 # maxNumOfOrderedRes    100000
diff --git a/src/client/src/tscSQLParser.c b/src/client/src/tscSQLParser.c
index 8bab4225b81335c3666f8f65f7ca82e27ae39695..573e8b8782de02d5361ad840d517ece75544df52 100644
--- a/src/client/src/tscSQLParser.c
+++ b/src/client/src/tscSQLParser.c
@@ -4401,9 +4401,9 @@ static int32_t validateLikeExpr(tSqlExpr* pExpr, STableMeta* pTableMeta, int32_t
   tSqlExpr* pRight = pExpr->pRight;
 
   if (pExpr->tokenId == TK_LIKE) {
-    if (pRight->value.nLen > tsMaxLikeStringLen) {
+    if (pRight->value.nLen > tsMaxWildCardsLen) {
       char tmp[64] = {0};
-      sprintf(tmp, msg1, tsMaxLikeStringLen);
+      sprintf(tmp, msg1, tsMaxWildCardsLen);
       return invalidOperationMsg(msgBuf, tmp);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/common/inc/tglobal.h b/src/common/inc/tglobal.h
index 544482fd1499c24b7ed3151bd9397a0400424ea4..25d1c90ec543f28ebc4ed3687b0efe064de09941 100644
--- a/src/common/inc/tglobal.h
+++ b/src/common/inc/tglobal.h
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ extern int8_t   tsKeepOriginalColumnName;
 
 // client
 extern int32_t tsMaxSQLStringLen;
-extern int32_t tsMaxLikeStringLen;
+extern int32_t tsMaxWildCardsLen;
 extern int8_t  tsTscEnableRecordSql;
 extern int32_t tsMaxNumOfOrderedResults;
 extern int32_t tsMinSlidingTime;
diff --git a/src/common/src/tglobal.c b/src/common/src/tglobal.c
index 98d524179d04c896b668ac883fc91f67dd318ab7..3c904dc03473015179bff37921c2f4381f68c1bb 100644
--- a/src/common/src/tglobal.c
+++ b/src/common/src/tglobal.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ int32_t tsCompressMsgSize = -1;
 
 // client
 int32_t tsMaxSQLStringLen = TSDB_MAX_ALLOWED_SQL_LEN;
-int32_t tsMaxLikeStringLen = TSDB_PATTERN_STRING_MAX_LEN;
+int32_t tsMaxWildCardsLen = TSDB_PATTERN_STRING_MAX_LEN;
 int8_t  tsTscEnableRecordSql = 0;
 
 // the maximum number of results for projection query on super table that are returned from
@@ -986,8 +986,8 @@ static void doInitGlobalConfig(void) {
   cfg.unitType = TAOS_CFG_UTYPE_BYTE;
   taosInitConfigOption(cfg);
 
-  cfg.option = "maxLikeLength";
-  cfg.ptr = &tsMaxLikeStringLen;
+  cfg.option = "maxWildCardsLength";
+  cfg.ptr = &tsMaxWildCardsLen;
   cfg.valType = TAOS_CFG_VTYPE_INT32;
   cfg.cfgType = TSDB_CFG_CTYPE_B_CONFIG | TSDB_CFG_CTYPE_B_CLIENT | TSDB_CFG_CTYPE_B_SHOW;
   cfg.minValue = 0;