Dear Tom, Laurenz, and Dominique,

Thank you all very much for your helpful and detailed explanations.

Your insights clarified the behavior change in PostgreSQL 15 perfectly, and I 
now have a clear understanding of the issue I was encountering. I really 
appreciate your time and support.

Best regards,  
Wang Bo


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> 
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2025 11:16 PM
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at>
Cc: 王 博 <bo.w...@infortech.co.jp>; pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org; 李 浩 
<hao...@infortech.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Request for official clarification on SQL parameter parsing 
changes in PostgreSQL 15 and 16

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at> writes:
> On Thu, 2025-04-17 at 05:17 +0000, 王 博 wrote:
>> 1. In PostgreSQL 15 and later:
>>    The following SQL causes a syntax error unless a space is added after the 
>> `?`:
>>      SELECT * FROM table WHERE a = ?AND b = 123;
>>    → Adding a space (`? AND`) resolves the issue.

> I'd say it is this change:
> https://postgr.es/c/2549f0661bd28571d7200d6f82f752a7ee5d47e1

Yeah.  This looks like "?" ought to be parsable as a separate token ... but as 
Dominique noted, it's not actually legal syntax in any version of Postgres.  
Something in your client stack must be translating "?" to "$1", "$2", etc, and 
so the new prohibition against junk trailing a number applies.

You could fix this without application-level changes if you fixed whatever is 
making that substitution to add spaces around the parameter symbol.  It's 
really a bug that it didn't do so already, since closely-adjacent cases like 
digits immediately after the "?" would already have caused failures.

                        regards, tom lane

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