Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, John Goerzen wrote:
I haven't read this entire thread, but I might also just interject here that HDBC supports ODBC (on Windows, and on Linux/Posix platforms via unixODBC, iODBC, or similar), which may be another avenue for you to try. I'm sure there are ODBC Oracle drivers out there, and so if you have your ODBC layer working, you get Haskell support easily.
This was actually how the thread started: I don't get ODBC for Oracle working on Linux. :-( Maybe this is an unixODBC issue - is iODBC an API-compatible replacement?
Yes, iODBC is. There are also proprietary ODBC implementations. At work, we have to deal with Progress databases. Their ODBC library, presumably due to being a rather ancient shared library, doesn't work with unixODBC -- but they ship their entire own ODBC framework, Merant ODBC. HDBC compiles against it (though must be modified to not support wide characters, which Merant ODBC doesn't support). -- John