[Haskell-cafe] Interest in typed relational algebra library?

[Ertugrul Söylemez]

Paul Visschers <mail at paulvisschers.net> wrote:

> I've been out of the Haskell game for a bit, but now I'm back. A
> couple of years ago I made a small library that implements relational
> algebra with types so that malformed queries and other operations are
> caught at compile time. It is heavily based off of the internals of
> HaskellDB (see
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/haskelldb/2.1.1/doc/html/Database-HaskellDB-PrimQuery.html),
> but types so that it can actually be used directly instead of having
> to use HaskellDB's query monad. Besides the joy of using relational
> algebra directly in your code, this also means that you can make
> query-optimizing code in a type-safe way, you can subquery results
> returned by the database directly without accessing the database again
> and you have more options when converting from relation algebra to SQL
> or another query language. The library isn't quite ready for release,
> but I might want to work on it a bit and then release it. Is anyone
> interested in such a library?

As someone who enjoyed the HaskellDB library I'm very interested in such
a library, even though nowadays I mostly use acid-state.


Greets,
Ertugrul

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