safe-exceptions VS postgresql-simple

Compare safe-exceptions vs postgresql-simple and see what are their differences.

safe-exceptions

Safe, consistent, and easy exception handling (by fpco)

postgresql-simple

Mid-level client library for accessing PostgreSQL from Haskell (by lpsmith)
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safe-exceptions postgresql-simple
3 1
132 206
0.0% -
3.4 0.0
6 months ago over 2 years ago
Haskell Haskell
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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safe-exceptions

Posts with mentions or reviews of safe-exceptions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-21.
  • Spooky Masks and Async Exceptions
    1 project | /r/haskell | 30 Oct 2022
    In case anyone is interested, there's a long discussion on this ticket. Still hoping somebody will respond to my comment.
  • Async Control Flow
    7 projects | /r/haskell | 21 Mar 2021
    In safe-exception and uniftio it was decided to rethrow the original exception exactly because they decided to use uninterruptibleMask, see here for details.
  • Why exactly I want Boring Haskell to happen
    6 projects | /r/haskell | 9 Jan 2021
    unliftio (and safe-exceptions) contains a very controversial choice of of using uninterruptibleMask inside its bracket. The argument for it seem to come from this issue and comes from the fact that one of the most popular resource finalizers hClose is interruptible. This is a simplification. It is interruptible only if a file handle is used concurrently. Such usage of file handles is rather odd, and it suggest wrong architecture, for example leaking file handles using concurrency. When using file handles in synchronous setting, what withFile pattern encourages, hClose will not block and thus mask is enough.

postgresql-simple

Posts with mentions or reviews of postgresql-simple. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-21.
  • Async Control Flow
    7 projects | /r/haskell | 21 Mar 2021
    Hmm, you are right, the bracket I pointed to is unrelated. I guess the fix is in catchAny, which doesn't catch ThreadKilled. So not it's not rolling the transaction back in case of asynchronous exceptions. My point is that it probably should not rollback even on synchronous exception. BTW the issue is well know, see for example here

What are some alternatives?

When comparing safe-exceptions and postgresql-simple you can also consider the following projects:

ifcxt - constraint level if statements

haskey-btree - B+-tree implementation in Haskell

unexceptionalio - IO without any PseudoExceptions

mbtiles - Haskell MBTiles Library

atl - Arrow Transformer Library

postgresql-schema - PostgreSQL Schema is a database migration tool.

effect-monad - Provides 'graded monads' and 'parameterised monads' to Haskell, enabling fine-grained reasoning about effects.

gremlin-haskell -  Haskell graph database client for TinkerPop3 Gremlin Server

transient - A full stack, reactive architecture for general purpose programming. Algebraic and monadically composable primitives for concurrency, parallelism, event handling, transactions, multithreading, Web, and distributed computing with complete de-inversion of control (No callbacks, no blocking, pure state)

hocilib - A lightweight Haskell binding to the OCILIB C API

time-warp

postgresql-transactional - Transactional monadic actions on top of PostgreSQL.