> On Jun 4, 2019, at 1:35 PM, Michael Lewis <mlewis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ":foo" named placeholders > > If I may, is this supported natively in Postgres prepared statements? It's not. The only type we support are numbered $1 type placeholders. > Can I see an example? I do not care much for the numbers of positional placeholders and would love to use names instead if possible. It'd be nice. They're supported via rewriting at the driver level in some drivers, and I've written shims to convert them in an app a few times and it makes for much more readable - and bug-resistant - code. Supporting it at the protocol level would be very nice. Cheers, Steve