On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <g...@turnstep.com> wrote:
> Dave Cramer wrote: > > Well our solution was to use ?? but that does mean we have to do some > > extra parsing which in a perfect world wouldn't be necessary. > > That's not a good solution as '??' is a perfectly valid operator. ISTR > seeing it used somewhere in the wild, but I could be wrong. > > It which case you would write (I think, not tested and not part of the test suite that I can see...): a ???? b ... There was some discussion about ?? vs \?: https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/187 I did find some alternatives discussed a couple of years back, like {postgres qm} and <operator("?")>; the later simply being to allow the operator to be quoted inside "operator()" http://postgresql.nabble.com/Alias-hstore-s-to-so-that-it-works-with-JDBC-td5743863i20.html The commit that added "??": https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/227 David J.
