Database interfaces?

[Dominic Steinitz]

In the end, the HSQL toolkit provided enough so I didn't do anything
further. It's good news that the HaskellDB project is being revived.

Dominic.
>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:53:12 -0800 (PST)
> From: Christopher Milton <cmiltonperl at yahoo.com>
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> Subject: Re: Database interfaces?
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> --- Daan Leijen <daanleijen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:01:41 -0800 (PST), Christopher Milton
> > <cmiltonperl at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > What happened to the Haskell database interfaces project?
> >
> > Hi Christopher,
> >
> > I don't know exactly what the "Haskell database interfaces project" is,
but
> > here are some developments that you might want to know about:
>
> Dominic Steinitz was leading an effort back in Jan/Feb 2003, but it seemed
> to fizzle out, or at least I never heard about it again.
>
> > 1) Krasimir Angelov's HSQL toolkit provides (untyped) access to ODBC,
MySQL
> > and
> >     PostgresSQL databases. It doesn't return meta information yet.
> >     <http://htoolkit.sourceforge.net/>
> >
> > 2) wxHaskell has extensive ODBC support (but only tested on windows as
yet).
> >     also untyped but with meta-information.
> >     <http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/doc/Graphics.UI.WXCore.Db.html>
> >
> > 3) Haskell/DB is being revived to provide typed access to databases.
This
> >     is a student project at Chalmers. You can reach them at
> >     <dp03-7 at mdstud.chalmers.se>, and I think it was Anders Höckersten
who
> >     is doing it?
> >     Now that Haskell has functional dependencies, you can mimick just
enough
> >     of TREX with nested cartesian products to use HaskellDB without
TREX.
> >     I think they use HSQL for the low-level access :-(  (that is meant
> > funny:-)
>
> Typed access, that's exactly it. I'll have to contact the folks at
Chalmers.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Chris
>
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