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+# Welcome!
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+Welcome to Rel8! Rel8 is a Haskell library for interacting with PostgreSQL databases, built on top of the fantastic Opaleye library.
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+The main objectives of Rel8 are:
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+* *Conciseness*: Users using Rel8 should not need to write boiler-plate code. By using expressive types, we can provide sufficient information for the compiler to infer code whenever possible.
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+* *Inferrable*: Despite using a lot of type level magic, Rel8 aims to have excellent and predictable type inference.
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+* *Familiar*: writing Rel8 queries should feel like normal Haskell programming.
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+For more details, check out the [official documentation](https://rel8.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).