Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC, postgresql, bytestrings and embedded NULLs

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:01 PM, John Goerzen wrote:

On 01/07/2011 09:49 AM, John Goerzen wrote:

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On 01/07/2011 05:24 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Iustin Pop wrote: Yes, I had a bug reported in persistent-postgresql that I traced back to this bug. I reported the bug, but never heard a response. Frankly, if I had time, I would write a low-level PostgreSQL binding so I could skip HDBC entirely.

I'm not seeing an open issue at https://github.com/jgoerzen/hdbc-postgresql/issues -- did you report it somewhere else?

Along the same lines, I am a volunteer and patches are accepted even more happily than bug reports.  It's disheartening to see someone's volunteer work reduced to "Bah, it doesn't escape NULLs, so it sucks so much that I'll just go write my own."  It would seem to me that contributing your skill to fixing issues with existing software would be a better thing than having to invent yet another database system.

-- John

Sorry, I did not mean to imply that your work is worthless. What I meant is that I don't like having so many layers of indirection in my software: persistent itself is already a high-level wrapper that abstracts backends. Wrapping another library to do something similar just means there are now *two* places to check for bugs. In general I think it would be a good thing to have solid, low-level bindings to PostgreSQL. And I reported the bug with a direct email to you I believe, perhaps it went to your junk mail folder? I apologize for the implied insult, it was not intended. Michael