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