Re: [Haskelldb-users] Oracle via HaskellDB

[Henning T. <has...@he...>]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Henning Thielemann wrote:

> There was already a question about Oracle access via HaskellDB:
>  http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-February/039068.html
>   which unfortunately remained unanswered. On the one hand Oracle support is
> listed in the package description, but I cannot find a module for it. Since I
> failed installing Oracle's ODBC driver, but I can run Oracle's sqlplus (access
> via OCI), I'm interested in Oracle/OCI support by HaskellDB. If this is not
> already implemented somewhere - how difficult would it be to use the related
> stuff from Takusen? In the end it would be certainly perfect to have one OCI
> package which is used by both Takusen and HaskellDB. If I understand the
> architecture of HaskellDB right then we need HSQL or HDBC support for Oracle
> before going to implement support by HaskellDB. Which one, HSQL or HDBC, is the
> better choice for this task?

I do now see that HSQL has Oracle support, which is in the darcs 
repository but not on Hackage. However the HaskellDB interface is still 
missing (and I can compile HSQL Oracle support, I can also log in to the 
database, but cannot get data out of it ...)