Gour wrote:
John> HDBC is a low-level abstraction, which can be used on its own or, John> of course, as a layer underlying HaskellDB or some such. I do not John> dispute the use of tools such as HaskellDB or others that try to John> automate the business of representing a database's schema -- and John> queries against it -- using a language's type system. There are a John> lot of these systems in a lot of languages. I've used some of John> them.
Have you maybe tried Takusen (HaskellDB which you reference above does not seem very much alive)?
No, I haven't, unfortunately.
Otoh, I believe that, considering it is mentioned in RWH, HDBC does not need much commercial, just contrary, you can expect new feature requests From the new army of Haskell developers cultivated by the book :-)
That's great. Even better if accompanied by a patch ;-)
I'll e.g. open ticket for BLOB support :-D
Of course :-)
Database abstraction offered by HDBC is very nice feature allowing one to change back-end driver without too much hassle, so I'll try to investigate a bit about possible BLOB support on HDBC-level.
That would be wonderful.
It's definitely something used in real-world databases...
Yes, I'm quite aware of that. Just not *my* particular ones ;-) -- John