On 2016-12-09 12:17:32 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > As Geoff says, you don't have to use the operators; you could use the > equivalent functions instead. Every operator just gets turned into a > function call internally, so this is always possible.
Well, except that only operators support indexing :(
Really? Seems like an odd design decision.
The only other simple suggestion then would be to use PDO named parameters instead of positional ones. Much nicer syntax anyway, IMO.