[Haskell-cafe] Haskell SQL backends: How is data handed over?

[Brandon Allbery]

More specifically, a query or DML statement is a string with ?
placeholders for values, which is "prepare"d to turn it into internal
format and then executed one or more times with values supplied.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 4:51 PM Anthony Clayden
<anthony.d.clayden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > the backend constructs a complete SQL query statement in form of a string (including the SqlValues), and hands that to the database driver to parse. Is that indeed so?
> >
>
> Hi Olaf, that's the usual format for any HLL to pass statements (queries or updates) to SQL.
>
> Most HLLs provide some sort of modulate/demodulate so your program doesn't see the raw numbers-as-strings, but the parsing is going on in the background.
>
> Going via CSV isn't really saving anything: the "bulk insert" is again parsing those commas and the bits in between. (A dedicated SQL engine is probably more efficient than Haskell's string handling.)
>
> AntC
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