Re: [Haskell-cafe] Replacing RDMS - global lock and STM preventing retrying?

2008-04-26 Thread Mads Lindstrøm
Hi Marc Weber wrote: > What would be the right way to go to replace RDBMS (postgres/ mysql) etc > using haskell only for small to medium sized (web)applications? > I guess one way to go is using STM. > But what happens if you have some tables each row represented as TVar > and you'd like to do a f

[Haskell-cafe] Replacing RDMS - global lock and STM preventing retrying?

2008-04-26 Thread Marc Weber
What would be the right way to go to replace RDBMS (postgres/ mysql) etc using haskell only for small to medium sized (web)applications? I guess one way to go is using STM. But what happens if you have some tables each row represented as TVar and you'd like to do a full backup? Some occasionally oc