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+Haskell libpq binding
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+
+This is a Haskell binding to libpq: the C application programmer's
+interface to PostgreSQL. libpq is a set of library functions that
+allow client programs to pass queries to the PostgreSQL backend server
+and to receive the results of these queries.
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