On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > PgJDBC allows you to write ??, which is ugly, but tolerable, since the > JDBC spec doesn't have an escape syntax for it.
This is the core problem; *JDBC* is busted. SQL reserves words but not punctuation marks so any assumption by client side code that characters are not going to be interpreted by the server are going to cause problems. As noted earlier ":" is equally problematic as that is hibernate's parameter marker and hibernate is probably in even greater usage than naked JDBC in the java community. Imagine trying to embed, say, perl, in java and reserving the very same punctuation marks and then complaining to the perl community that their language is broken due to usage overlap...that's what's happening here. If we really wanted to fix this, maybe the right way to think about the problem is a highly reduced character set and a pre-processor or an extension. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
