RE: [Haskell-cafe] Consensus about databases / serialization

Yitz wrote:

My impression from some previous posts is that because of the high-level approach, it is difficult to control the precise SQL that is generated. In practice, you almost always have to do some tweaking that is at least DB-dependent, and often application dependent.

Can't the same be said regarding SQL itself? It sometimes needs tweaking. That's the problem with any high level abstraction no? Just like in Haskell you sometimes have to use strictness tweaks. Of course having an extra layer on top of SQL will make the tweaking more difficult :) Peter