[Haskelldb-users] PostgreSQL timestamp columns, with HDBC

[Matthew S. <ma...@we...>]

Hi,

I've been using the hdbc-postgresql driver, and there are problems with
pulling timestamp values out of the database as they arrive as strings
and then get interpreted as ints which causes errors.

So, attached is a darcs patch which solves this problem. It adds a
dependancy on parsedate, from

http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/darcs/parsedate/doc/api/System-Time-Parse.html

I'm not convinced my changes are in the right place - being in Types.hs
makes it common to all the HDBC drivers. Plus the format string is going
to vary between databases and installations, versions and configurations
of PostgreSQL.

On the other hand, it does at least work for me! Any comments gratefully
received. The patch should apply in the hdbc directory.

Matthew
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