Hi Dmitriy,

I considered just doing a string replacement, however this might be
potentially dangerous because in theory a query might contain a question
mark as part of a string or similar. Although I'm certain it would work
for us at the moment, it looks like a problem waiting to happen. Doing a
proper replacement (as ODBC probably does) most likely requires a full
blown SQL parser...

On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 14:08 +0400, Dmitriy Igrishin wrote:
> Hey Andreas,
> 
> 
> 2014/1/20 Andreas Lubensky <luben...@cognitec.com>
>         Hi,
>         
>         Is there any way to make PostgreSQL support the question mark
>         (?)
>         notation instead of the dollar sign ($1, $2...) for prepared
>         statements?
>         Most databases use the question mark notation and we have a
>         set of
>         simple queries that are supposed to be portable across
>         different
>         database systems. So far we use PostgreSQL via ODBC, but now
>         we want to
>         switch to a native libpq implementation.
> I believe that C-function for replacing '?' with '$n' can easily
> implemented
> in the application code. Or you may want to look at libpqtypes:
> http://libpqtypes.esilo.com/
> 
> Or (if you are C++) you may want to look at SOCI:
> http://soci.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> -- 
> // Dmitriy.
> 
> 

-- 
with best regards,

Andreas Lubensky



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