diff --git a/hasql.cabal b/hasql.cabal
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@@ -5,6 +5,29 @@ version:
 synopsis:
   A minimalistic general high level API for relational databases
 description:
+  A robust and concise yet powerful API for communication with arbitrary
+  relational databases. Features:
+  .
+  * Concise and crisp API. Just a few functions and two monads doing all the
+  boilerplate job for you.
+  .
+  * Automated management of resources related to connections, transactions and
+  cursors.
+  .
+  * Streaming processing of results. This means that only the results you
+  actually use get parsed and mapped, and only as soon as you reach them. No
+  resources get waisted on redundant traversals or parsing.
+  .
+  * Employment of prepared statements. Every statement you emit gets prepared
+  and cached. This raises the performance of the backend.
+  .
+  * Support for cursors. Allows to fetch virtually limitless result sets in a
+  constant memory using streaming.
+  .
+  * Type-level generation of templates. You just can't write a statement with an
+  incorrect number of placeholders.
+  .
+  * Mapping to any types actually supported by the backend.
 category:
   Database
 homepage: