On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 7:46 PM John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org> wrote:

I'm working on a SRFI to provide a basic relational table capability to Scheme programs, as opposed to providing access to external relational databases a la ODBC etc. I'm basing it on APSW, a SQLite-specific API for Python. SQLite has its limitations, but its zero-administration design puts it essentially on all fours with a file API, but with strong ACID and a query language (also imperfect) and multiple tables in one file and all. However, I'm trying to make it so that you can replace it with any fairly similar database engine. More details later when I have them.

A very preliminary set of notes on the API is at <https://bitbucket.org/cowan/r7rs-wg1-infra/src/default/SimpleSqlCowan.md>.

John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan xxxxxx@ccil.org
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