[database-devel] Welcome to database-devel!

[Torsten Grust]

Hi all,

just wanted to say `hi'.   We are the folks working on
Database-Supported Haskell (DSH on hackag
e [1]), a library
which allows you to continue to use the famililar list-processing
combinators -- or list comprehensions, for that matter --
when formulating database queries.[2]

Such expressions are compiled into a (small) group of cooperating
SQL  statements which effectively evaluate the expression over the
tables of an associated relational DBMS (these tables are thus
looked at as if they were lists of tuples).

We are always interested in growing the set of functions that
DSH understand as ``database-able''.  Further work is underway
to support arbitrary non-recursive algebraic datatypes in such
queries (based on GHC's generic deriving mechanism).

We're thus living on the ``don't embed literal SQL text into
your Haskell source at all'' end of the spectrum, somewhat distant
from postgresql-simple and friends, I guess.  Still, we're quite
interested where these other efforts go.


Cheers,
    --Torsten


[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/DSH
[2] http://db.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/research/dsh



On 7 May 2012, at 15:56, Greg Weber wrote:
> I worked with a student to lay out a vision for type-safe database
> access in a GSoC proposal [1].
> I have little interest in the SQL variant at the moment, but plan on
> making a MongoDB version when I get a free weekend, which may not be
> until after I am done mentoring GSoC projects.
>
> [1] 
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/zhulikas/1
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Leon Smith <leon.p.smith at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> I thought I should break the ice here;   we currently have 22 
>> subscribers,
>> with names I recognize from acid-state, mysql-simple, 
>> postgresql-simple,
>> hssqlppp,  persistent,  and even PostgreSQL itself.   If I've 
>> missed
>> anything relevant here,  please speak up.
>>
>> So the goal of this list is to help improve the state of database
>> programming in Haskell;   I'm not picky about particular topics as 
>> long as
>> they are of reasonable quality and relevant to database programming 
>> and
>> Haskell.     This could be implementing a database in Haskell 
>> itself (like
>> acid-state),  to interacting with traditional RDBMSes or newer NoSQL
>> systems.
>>
>> My personal interest at the moment primarily lies at coming up with a 
>> good
>> mid-level interface to RDBMSes along the lines of the -simple 
>> libraries,
>> but I also have interest in an auto-pipelining client library for
>> PostgreSQL,  which involves some very low-level details of the 
>> PostgreSQL
>> frontend/backend protocol.  I'm also interested  in higher-level
>> abstractions for dealing with relational databases in general,  but 
>> I really
>> don't have well-formed opinions on how this should be done.
>>
>> Also while SQL can be cool,  it hides that coolness under a lot of 
>> syntactic
>> (and some semantic) ugliness;  I often wish for a simpler, saner 
>> syntax,
>> replacing NULL with algebraic data types,   and a richer attribute 
>> types,
>> especially relationally valued attributes.
>>
>> So what you interested in?
>>
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-- 
| Prof. Dr. Torsten Grust
| Database Systems — Universität Tübingen (Germany)
| torsten.grust at uni-tuebingen.de
| db.inf.uni-tuebingen.de