i use haskell couchdb 0.10 with more luck than others: it works for me quite well. I have been careful to convert to json strings separately from the calls to runCouchDB - so i could check that the values were correct. i sense there is a difficulty with 'newView' - it does not allow to update a viewset, but one has to select for each change a new viewset (design) name; which is sort of annoying. the newView operation should ptobably be called 'newViewset', because it sets multiple views in one design document. it would be nice, if that could not only be set, but also updated. (the full set at once) i would also recommend that the first parameter is of type DB and not String - or are there any particular reasons for this? i appreciate the package and i like it! andrew