Leon P Smith

Hmm, we actually did discuss this issue, though there are no comments here. Was this discussion on IRC? I might have to go back through my logs.

Yeah, we discussed this on IRC on Oct 10; the main concerns were some of the finer details of how this should work, for example: If a column name is...

`PQfnumber` attempts to normalize the column name by converting it to lower case, unless it's surrounded by double quotes. It may have additional behaviors as well, though. So this would...

That's (roughly) what was there before; the newer interface as proposed by Ozgun Ataman turned out to be way more convenient. Note there really is nothing stopping you from doing...

Sounds reasonable to me. You can implement your own connect function via the `Internal` module, but perhaps it would be better to have a way to do this via the...

Well, even if we don't offer a way to do this via the public interface, we should ensure that there is a semi-standard and reasonably convenient way to implement this...

This is something that does eventually need to get implemented. I don't think it is possible to have the same level of type-checking as the rest of postgresql-simple, though.

Sounds like a great idea! I'll try to get this done for the next release, though I don't know when that might happen.

Well, the latter two errors won't be errors in psql. Rather they are conversion errors inside postgresql-simple; as far as the backend is concerned, there is no error. As for...

Maybe? It's been a long time since I've worked or thought about this bit of code. Though we would need to adopt some of the techniques in the [`Notification`](https://github.com/lpsmith/postgresql-simple/blob/14d00c22713aab7d55a81a81b47cc5bb7280398f/src/Database/PostgreSQL/Simple/Notification.hs) module...