Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Should Postgres accept ? as a placeholder? > > In short, I think this notation sucks and I don't want to emulate it.
Certainly it sucks. Unfortunately it's the supported ODBC API which is emulated by everyone else, including JDBC and DBI. So the world's pretty much stuck with it. However this isn't Postgres's problem. If you want to write code that works with multiple databases then you're going to want to be using something like ODBC or JDBC or DBI anyways. In which case it's the driver's responsibility to provide the standard API which includes translating ? into appropriate syntax for the database. In other words, your problem should already be solved by your driver. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])