darioteixeira/pgocaml

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PG'OCaml provides an interface to PostgreSQL databases for OCaml applications. It uses Camlp4 to extend the OCaml syntax, enabling one to directly embed SQL statements inside the OCaml code.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2016-05-03 · latest 2025-04-21

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I did a safe OCaml implementation of this about 20 years ago, the latest version being here: https://github.com/darioteixeira/pgocaml Note that the variables are safely and correctly interpolated at compile time. And it's type checked…
comment by rwmj · 2025-04-21 · in Python’s new t-strings
…the validation and get the types. It really made writing database-baked websites less of a grind. https://github.com/darioteixeira/pgocaml
comment by rwmj · 2022-02-20 · in Ask HN: What is the killer app/library of your favorite language?
…although now maintained by a group of authors: http://pgocaml.forge.ocamlcore.org/ (git source: https://github.com/darioteixeira/pgocaml ) It's only possible because OCaml has real macros. It wouldn't be easy to do this in C/C++ (I guess?…
comment by rwmj · 2016-05-03 · in Weep for Graphics Programming