Re: [Haskelldb-users] Interested in updating HaskellDB

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

On Nov 16, 2007, at 21:16 , Justin Bailey wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I've spent most of this week investigating HaskellDB. I am interested
> in using it as the basis for specifying and generating an ORM layer
> for an application I work on at my day job. I've gotten to the point
> of using it to query our existing database and generate table
> specifications from that. I am very impressed, especially considering
> the low level of activity on the project over the last several years.
> It's solid work.
>
> I'd like to extend the API to do joins properly and to not force a
> "DISTINCT" clause into each query. Is that a feasible idea (assuming
> my Haskell abilities are up to it)? Would this list be a good resource
> for asking questions about the code, if I start hacking on it?
>
> Thanks for the great work so far and in advance for any help or =20
> advice.
>
> Justin

Hi Justin,

that sounds like a good plan. The DISTINCT thing ought to be easy =20
enough. It's not obvious to me how to get the types right for joins, =20
but you are welcome to look at it. CoddFish [1] might provide some =20
inspiration.

This list doesn't get a lot of traffic, but I think it's the best =20
place for discussing HaskellDB hacking.

Peter Gammie is also hacking on HaskellDB at the moment, so you may =20
want to talk to him. Peter: It might makes sense for you to be on =20
this list.

/Bj=F6rn

[1] http://wiki.di.uminho.pt/twiki/bin/view/Research/PURe/CoddFish