Alternative to prepared statements?

[jonny-rimek]

As you write here https://github.com/segmentio/go-athena/blob/master/conn.go#L24 Athena doesn't support prepared statements, which is true.

My question is how do I safely build queries where part of the query is user input.

The database/sql package wants us to use prepared satements and doesn't seem to offer any alternative.
I wasn't able to to find anything regarding sql santization/escaping in golang, besides "use sql.Query"