PostgREST is an HTTP server written in Haskell that serves a fully RESTful API from a PostgreSQL database. It generates the endpoints directly from the database schema so you do not have to write anything from scratch. You just download the binary, fire it up with a database connection string and you are good to go. …

I have a set of data from an old legacy application that must be resurrected and web-enabled. The data was extracted from a relational database so it is structured in a conventional third-normal form, but the original application was pensioned off a long time ago, and probably a good thing too.

Reanimating a legacy …