diff --git a/mysql-test/columnstore/basic/r/MCOL-5599-like-never-finishes.result b/mysql-test/columnstore/basic/r/MCOL-5599-like-never-finishes.result
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e6aabb2a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mysql-test/columnstore/basic/r/MCOL-5599-like-never-finishes.result
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS MCOL5599;
+CREATE DATABASE MCOL5599;
+USE MCOL5599;
+CREATE TABLE t (t TEXT) ENGINE = COLUMNSTORE;
+SELECT * FROM t WHERE t LIKE '%1%';
+t
+DROP DATABASE MCOL5599;
diff --git a/mysql-test/columnstore/basic/t/MCOL-5599-like-never-finishes.test b/mysql-test/columnstore/basic/t/MCOL-5599-like-never-finishes.test
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4cd01f33b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mysql-test/columnstore/basic/t/MCOL-5599-like-never-finishes.test
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--disable_warnings
+DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS MCOL5599;
+--enable_warnings
+CREATE DATABASE MCOL5599;
+USE MCOL5599;
+CREATE TABLE t (t TEXT) ENGINE = COLUMNSTORE;
+# This tests logging facility to correctly process agruments
+# with "logging argument index" (like "%1%") in them. This has
+# nothing to do with regexps. This query just have to finish.
+SELECT * FROM t WHERE t LIKE '%1%';
+DROP DATABASE MCOL5599;
diff --git a/utils/loggingcpp/format.h b/utils/loggingcpp/format.h
index f12d019ce..93fdf2585 100644
--- a/utils/loggingcpp/format.h
+++ b/utils/loggingcpp/format.h
@@ -40,16 +40,27 @@ void formatOne(std::string& errMsg, Iter iter, uint32_t position)
     if (index == std::string::npos)
       break;
 
+    size_t advance_length;
+ 
+    // below we can replace token with longer or shorter string.
+    // we should compute exact replacement length to prevent
+    // 1) recognizing token inside a replacement
+    // 2) not skipping token recognition if replacement is shorter.i
+    // regarding 1: the string is "%1%" and replacement is "aaaaa %1%".
+    // regarding 2: the string is "%1% %1%" and replacement is empty string.
+ 
     if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, std::string>)
     {
+      advance_length = arg.length();
       errMsg.replace(index, token.length(), arg);
     }
     else
     {
+      advance_length = std::to_string(arg).length();
       errMsg.replace(index, token.length(), std::to_string(arg));
     }
 
-    index += token.length();
+    index += advance_length;
   }
 }
 
@@ -89,4 +100,4 @@ void formatMany(std::string& errMsg, const T& args)
   errMsg = std::regex_replace(errMsg, restToken, "");
 }
 
-}  // namespace logging
\ No newline at end of file
+}  // namespace logging