Does the JDBC spec prevent '?' from being used as an operator (outside of quotes)?

Question

From Sam Macbeth\'s question:

Is there anything in the JDBC spec which allows a ? to be escaped and be anything other than a parameter placeholder?

Answer 1

If you have the latest postgresql driver you can use:

??

Changing the original query:

SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE tbl.data ?? 'abc'

Details are in this pull request - https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/227 This change was made long after the original question, but it's worth noting that there's an easy answer now.