[Haskell-beginners] Recommended DB layer?

harry voldermort at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 17 09:02:51 CEST 2013


Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs <at> mega-nerd.com> writes:

> However, I have found Persistent along with Esqueleto a most pleasant
> experience. My app is only targeting Postgresql. I did some reading
> on database design, specifically about the importance of normailizing
> the data. I then designed the the schema and started writing inserts
> (using Persistent) and queries and updates (using Esqueleto). I am
> 100% certain that the type safety these languages of these interfaces
> has prevented numerous bugs.

Thanks for the heads up, I should give Esqueleto a look. The "lowest common
denominator" complaint did seem a bit strange to me, because it's exactly
what I'm used to doing in LINQ.




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