[Haskell-cafe] Re: recommendation for (best) sqlite3 bindings

[Michael Snoyman]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Gour <gour at gour-nitai.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:06:49 +0300
> >>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
>
> Michael> For the sqlite backend for persistent, I took direct-sqlite
> Michael> and modified it slightly. I have a long history of using the
> Michael> sqlite3 C API, so the API felt very familiar to me.
>
> So, it seems you're satisfiew with direct-sqlite?
>
> What is missing in 1st package (Galois bindings)?
>
> I didn't investigate it, I would imagine it's pretty complete if Galois
wrote it. I stuck with direct-sqlite just because it was so incredibly
simple (single file, ~15 functions).


> btw, after some research, I've concluded that NOSQL (Redis, MongoDB)
> are not good solutions in our use-case since we want to have extensive
> querying support and using sqlite3 with SQL seems better option.
>
> That's why I'm sticking with SQL for my current project.

Michael> If I'm not mistaken, direct-sqlite does not build as-is on
> Michael> hackage because it's missing a reference to the C library.
>
> Hmm...you're right.
>
> Apparently Archlinux package built OK; but loading it into ghci gives:
>
> ghc: /usr/lib/direct-sqlite-1.0/ghc-6.12.1/HSdirect-sqlite-1.0.o:
> unknown symbol `sqlite3_column_blob'
>
> Thank you.
>
> Michael> However, if you take my approach and just include the code in
> Michael> your library, you can fix that easily enough.
>
> It looks it's the problem with package's cabal file...
>
>
> True, it's a very simple fix. In fact, you can just include the sqlite
amalgamation file with the code and not worry about library dependencies.

Michael
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