Hello Attila,<br><br>I was aware of PG when I wrote Postmodern -- but as you say, its code is not in a very good state so I opted to re-write it. I didn&#39;t find out about cl-rdbms until very recently, and since it seemed in a rather expermental and undocumented state I didn&#39;t pay too much heed to it.
<br><br>The part of Postmodern that does SQL-as-s-expressions is something that I wrote half a year ago and has been in use at the place where I work for a while now, so I chose to stick with that instead of similar existing project. There&#39;s also a factor of &#39;it is more fun to write something myself than it is to bend existing existing into the shape I need&#39; involved here, so I (intentionally) did not always make the most &#39;cost-effective&#39; choices.
<br><br>I checked out local-time (writing a date/time library was something I&#39;d rather have avoided), but it did not seem to provide the necessary data types for representing the various SQL types, and it is Unix-only at the moment (uses the unix timezone files), and I want to be more portable than that. -- Of course, optional, unportable support for timezones is better than no support for them at all, so maybe we could add something like that.
<br><br>Though I haven&#39;t found any real clean way to model optional dependencies in ASDF yet -- see the hideous #.-hacks in the asd files for cl-postgres and postmodern. I know there are ASDF extensions for things like that, but nobody uses them so it&#39;s rather inconvenient to require them.
<br><br>Trivial sockets... I know (you&#39;ve told me multiple times on IRC), but until usocket has proper and portable support for byte streams this seems the only alternative (I&#39;ll switch to usocket at the drop of a hat when it gets byte streams).
<br><br>Anyway, thanks for the reactions, I&#39;ll look a bit further into cl-rdbms as soon as I have the time, and we&#39;ll see if some kind of merging is in order. But maybe you&#39;re better off just using the parts of Postmodern that you need (cl-postgres) in that project? Or a branch of it, if you must... My experiences with you in UCW context have kind of suggested that we&#39;ve got a bit of a different approach towards library building -- I&#39;m something of a minimalist, you like to throw in all kind of undeniably neat but very experimental and expensive features ;)
<br><br>Regards,<br>Marijn<br><br>