While you wait, check out http://stackoverflow.com/a/23500670/229006 http://stackoverflow.com/a/23500670/229006 My plan is to rely on these functions for now,

While you wait, check out http://stackoverflow.com/a/23500670/229006 http://stackoverflow.com/a/23500670/229006 My plan is to rely on these functions for now, and switch to the native implementations once 9.5 is production ready on RDS.