Squee!! guile-squee brings postgresql bindings for guile via the FFI

Squee!! guile-squee brings postgresql bindings for guile via the FFI

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Hello all!

I started a little experimental project recently called
guile-squee... it's presently verrrry simple:

  https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-squee

It's postgres bindings via the FFI.  This was originally for my own
purposes because I need something to serialize json data in and out of
postgres for my "activitystuff" project, but a few other Guile hackers
have taken interest.  I just added David Pirotte and David Thompson as
collaborators.

Where will things go from here?  Time will tell!  But here's some things
we're interested in:

 - Right now all values to and from sql are represented as strings.
   Racket does a nice job of converting to and from proper scheme
   values, we should do something like that using the byte format
   and converting to and from proper scheme types via bytevectors.
 - Something like https://github.com/fukamachi/sxql like would be
   stellar
 - Something like http://eudoxia.me/crane/ sitting on top of the sxql
   layer would be nice too
 - ???
 - <<Late-90s-slashdot-esque "profit!!!" joke!>>

Anyway, if this piques your interest, maybe take a look!
 - cwebb

Re: Squee!! guile-squee brings postgresql bindings for guile via the FFI

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

For what it's worth, there's an R7RS PostgreSQL library (yeah you heard
that right!) from Takashi Kato:

https://github.com/ktakashi/r7rs-postgresql

It uses SRFI-106 though, so it can't be used on Guile (even by replacing
the R7RS library boilerplate with Guile module boilerplate, which is
usually trivial).

Maybe comparing to it will stir some ideas or so, just wanted to point
out its existence for what it might be worth.

Taylan

Re: Squee!! guile-squee brings postgresql bindings for guile via the FFI

[Greg Troxel]

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Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:

> I started a little experimental project recently called
> guile-squee... it's presently verrrry simple:
>
>   https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-squee
>
> It's postgres bindings via the FFI.  This was originally for my own
> purposes because I need something to serialize json data in and out of
> postgres for my "activitystuff" project, but a few other Guile hackers
> have taken interest.  I just added David Pirotte and David Thompson as
> collaborators.

I am curious what you see as the advantages and disadvantages vs
guile-pg, which seems fairly mature.

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