maybe accept queries with a list/tuple/vector of Julia types (conversion targets)

[J-Sarnoff]

It would be a nice low-level assist from the DBAPI to SELECT fields from the DB and, before returning the result, convert(TargetType, field)ing the field values to the types the queryor will use.

[iamed2]

Yes, I have been thinking about a version of fetchinto_ that takes a container type and constructs and returns that container. I think that would satisfy this?

Thanks for contributing :) feel free to open any other feature request or idea issues, as I want to take many perspectives into account with this package.

[J-Sarnoff]

If by container you mean https://github.com/pluskid/SimpleStructs.jl -- yes if also you can replicate that for multirow responses.

Python DBI2 is not all that compelling -- it is a least likely to offend, erstwhile attempt at genericity.
Times have changed some. I have no qualm with using it to make sure 'bases are covered'.

What is your opinion of SQLAlchemy (not that that should be the DBI -- that the DBI should allow such constructions (the Julia way) to become available with more ease and less expertise.

[J-Sarnoff]

unclosed

[iamed2]

Moved the design discussion which is out of the scope of this issue to #6