Databases & daemons

[chuck]

My first post. :)

I come from a perl background but currently I am looking into 
transitioning into a compiled language. I am a fan of open 
software and know of the affinity Gnu has towards the C language, 
but would like to learn something that is a bit more like what I 
am used to. I have been working my way through Ali Çehreli's 
tutorial and like the language.

My question is: does Phobos or another standard library have 
intentions to make it easier to connect to a database (either 
Postgresql, etc. or a new D database that someone may be working 
on) and create daemons through D bindings, or will I need to know 
more C in order to use the proper code in extern segments? I am 
aware of independent projects for databases, but several of these 
have came and disappeared over time and I would like something 
with a more stable history. As for daemons, I know that I can 
call an extern C fork command, but is this as pure as D gets in 
this regard?