Re: [Haskelldb-users] GenericConnect ??

[Bjorn B. <bri...@cs...>]

Robert van Herk wrote:
>>> I wonder why GenericConnect.pphs does not seem to get installed with=20
>>> the cabal package... Was this intended?
>>
>> Yes it was. The problem with GenericsConnect is that it imports all=20
>> the drivers that were compiled with it. This has a number of=20
>> problems:  ...
>=20
> Ah I see. Does this mean that currently, there is no way to connect to =
a=20
> database from GHC 6.4? I've been browsing the HaskellDB's test files,=20
> but they all seem to use GenericConnect...

The recommended way at the moment is to use one of the driver-specific=20
connection functions:

Database.HaskellDB.HSQL.MySQL.mysqlConnect
Database.HaskellDB.HSQL.ODBC.odbcConnect
Database.HaskellDB.HSQL.PostgreSQL.postgresqlConnect
Database.HaskellDB.HSQL.SQLite.sqliteConnect
Database.HaskellDB.WX.wxConnect

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