That sounds pretty awesome to me. Have you given any thought as to how you want to approach versioning?
Maybe I'm asking a silly question - I have very little real world experience with relation databases and how to version schemas. Antoine On Sep 25, 2010 2:31 PM, "Jonathan Geddes" <[email protected]> wrote: > Cafe, > > HaskellDB takes a database schema and produces Haskell data structures > (plus some other query-related stuff for its EDSL query language). > > What I'm looking for is the inverse of this functionality. I want to > create tables based on a Haskell data structure with a few simple > rules. These rules include: if a field is not of the form `Maybe a' > then it can't be nullable in the database. If a field is not a > primitive (in the database) then it is actually stored in another > table and a reference id is stored in the table. Tables are produced > recursively, unless they already exist, etc. > > The HaskellDB approach is great for interfacing with existing tables, > but in my case I already have data structures and now I would like a > quick way to create tables to persist them. > > Does such a thing exist? If not, would you find it useful? I may take > this up as a side project if it does not already exist and others > would find it useful. > > Thanks, > > --Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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