On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 10:45 -0500, Brock Peabody wrote:
I'm teaching myself Haskell, and was wondering if anyone could recommend a library for accessing databases, PostgreSQL in particular.
I looked at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries_and_tools, and HSQL looked promising, but I can't get it to install on Windows or FreeBSD, with Hugs or GHC. According to the FreeBSD ports system, it is marked as broken.
There is also HDBC which is nearing a 1.0 release and in my experience is easier to install. (I package both HSQL & HDBC for Gentoo) http://quux.org/devel/hdbc/ In particular you'll want: http://quux.org/devel/hdbc/hdbc_0.99.2.tar.gz and the PostgreSQL backend: http://quux.org/devel/hdbc/hdbc-postgresql_0.99.2.1.tar.gz API docs: http://darcs.complete.org/hdbc/doc/Database-HDBC.html Duncan