Re: PATCH [0/12]: Guile-DBI and Guile-DBD-Postgres

2008-09-20 Thread Linas Vepstas
2008/9/20 Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ? I would be surprised if any database interface returned a > string, when the database column was declared an int, > so I don't quite understand this ... > > That would be the SQL way :-) I haven't looked at guile-dbi; perhaps it > has the critical co

Re: PATCH [0/12]: Guile-DBI and Guile-DBD-Postgres

2008-09-20 Thread Greg Troxel
? I would be surprised if any database interface returned a string, when the database column was declared an int, so I don't quite understand this ... That would be the SQL way :-) I haven't looked at guile-dbi; perhaps it has the critical conversions already. guile-pg does support pg larg

Re: PATCH [0/12]: Guile-DBI and Guile-DBD-Postgres

2008-09-19 Thread Linas Vepstas
2008/9/19 Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > guile-pg has really nice support for converting postgresql types to and > From scheme types, ? I would be surprised if any database interface returned a string, when the database column was declared an int, so I don't quite understand this ... > and

Re: PATCH [0/12]: Guile-DBI and Guile-DBD-Postgres

2008-09-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Also, can anyone provide a summary of all the DB-related libraries for Guile? I believe there's guile-pg, and guile-sqlite, but (i) there could be others I've forgotten, and (ii) it would be great if someone could summarize how they differ / overlap / compare with each other. guile-pg ha

Re: PATCH [0/12]: Guile-DBI and Guile-DBD-Postgres

2008-09-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Also, can anyone provide a summary of all the DB-related libraries for Guile? I believe there's guile-pg, and guile-sqlite, but (i) there could be others I've forgotten, and (ii) it would be great if someone could summarize how they differ / overlap / compare with each other. I am famili

Re: PATCH [0/12]: Guile-DBI and Guile-DBD-Postgres

2008-09-19 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/19 Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm posting here -- although there used to be guile-dbi-user and > guile-dbi-devel > mailing lists, these had no subscribers, and quickly filled with spam, as > evidenced by their mail archives. I've applied to get an account on gna.org > to post th

Re: PATCH [0/12]: Guile-DBI and Guile-DBD-Postgres

2008-09-19 Thread Mike Gran
- Original Message > From: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > Below follows a series of 12 patches against Guile-DBI and DBD-Postgres. > Linus, thank you for doing this. -Mike Gran

PATCH [0/12]: Guile-DBI and Guile-DBD-Postgres

2008-09-19 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi, Below follows a series of 12 patches against Guile-DBI and DBD-Postgres. Guile DBI is a wrapper for accessing SQL databases. https://gna.org/projects/guile-dbi/ I'm posting here -- although there used to be guile-dbi-user and guile-dbi-devel mailing lists, these had no subscribers, and quic