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

Lance Andersen - Oracle Lance.Andersen at oracle.com
Mon Feb 11 14:01:03 PST 2013


On Feb 11, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Douglas Surber wrote:

> At 01:24 PM 2/11/2013, Lance Andersen - Oracle wrote:
>> Better yet, have Postgres petition the Ansi Standard committee to also support '?' as an operator :-)
> 
> That would be very bad. It would require *all* JDBC implementations do sufficient parsing to distinguish '?' parameters from '?' operators. I know I don't want to try to parse

I agree, and that is why the smiley face at the end.  Plus it would take years to get this through as you know....
> 
>  select name from emp where ? ? ?
> 
> Douglas
> 

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