Postgres uses ? as an operator; may its JDBC driver allow escaping?

[Lance Andersen - Oracle]

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hi,

Is there any language in the JDBC spec that disallows Postgres's JDBC driver from supporting

   SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar ? 'baz'

... given that ? in this case is an operator and not a placeholder for a bind variable?

The discussion on pgsql-hackers [1] led to a question on StackOverflow [2], where Mark Rotteveel suggested that I ask jdbc-spec-discuss (greetings!)

Best,
Seamus

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/alpine.BSO.2.00.1302081134320.15260@leary.csoft.net
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14779896/does-the-jdbc-spec-prevent-from-being-used-as-an-operator-outside-of-quotes

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