On the functional approach to RDBMS

In this work, an integration of a relational database manager (Postgres95) and a functional language (Objective Caml) is shown. The main goal consists of providing a mechanism to save values in non volatile storage following the client-server approach. The existing relationships between the structures offered by databases and those of functional languages, such as lists or tuples, are identified. Besides, we show how the use of functional abstractions may simplify the development of queries to interact with the database manager.