Re: Alias hstore's ? to ~ so that it works with JDBC - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Alias hstore's ? to ~ so that it works with JDBC
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Msg-id 51153B12.3000903@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Alias hstore's ? to ~ so that it works with JDBC  (Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>)
Responses Re: Alias hstore's ? to ~ so that it works with JDBC  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
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On 02/08/2013 12:41 PM, Kris Jurka wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
>> Would this be an postgresql specific escape sequence ? I don't think the
>> spec allows for this does it ?
>>
> Yes, this would be a postgresql jdbc driver specific escape.  The spec
> doesn't have a concept of private escape sequences, but that doesn't seem
> like the end of the world.  Clearly the user here is writing postgresql
> specific code to use hstore operators, so there's not a portability loss
> here.
>


I assume, though, that you're not talking about something that's 
hstore-specific, but rather something that will allow the user to put a 
non-parameter question mark in the query string. As has been noted 
upthread, the hstore use is far from the only one that causes users to 
trip on this.

cheers

andrew



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