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

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Leon Smith wrote:

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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In general I think it would be a good thing to have solid, low-level bindings to PostgreSQL.

Well, there is PostgreSQL and libpq on hackage:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/libpq http://hackage.haskell.org/package/PostgreSQL

The PostgreSQL looks like it's in need of maintenance,  and hasn't been updated in a few years.   libpq is new,  and looks promising.   I haven't really used either one, so I can't really say too much about either.

Best, Leon

I've tried PostgreSQL before, and if I remember correctly I couldn't even build it. libpq looks interesting, I'd like to try it out. Unfortunately it depends on unix, which would be a problem for Windows users. If it looks like a good fit for persistent-postgresql, maybe I can convince the author to replace the unix dep with something else (unix-compat might be sufficient). Thanks for the pointer, Michael