Thomas L. Bevan writes: | Does anyone know if there is work being done on a standard Haskell | database interface. I suspect that there isn't. The pattern seems to be that someone gets an interface working well enough for some purposes, and perhaps shares it, but is too modest and/or busy to put it forward as a standard. For a row extraction mechanism, I'd vote for passing an extraction function (or IO action) to the main query function, like Tim Docker described last month. http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2003-July/004684.html This is a pretty good way to stop those nasty vague SQL row types at the Haskell border and turn them into something respectable. Perhaps it would even be worth constraining the extracted type to be in DeepSeq doquery :: (DeepSeq v) => Process -> String -> IO v -> IO [v] so that the interface clearly may confine its attention to one row at a time per cursor. - Tom