That would seem to be the implication. JDBC wouldn't really know anything about hstore.
Dave Cramer dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca http://www.credativ.ca On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > 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 >