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Programming language: Go

License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

Tags: Relational Databases Database Drivers

Latest version: v1.9.0

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go-sql-driver/mysql

9.8 5.7 pq VS go-sql-driver/mysql

Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package
sqlx

9.7 6.1 pq VS sqlx

general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

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go-sqlite3

9.4 4.6 L3 pq VS go-sqlite3

sqlite3 driver for go using database/sql
pgx

9.2 8.1 pq VS pgx

PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go
go-mssqldb

8.4 6.4 pq VS go-mssqldb

Microsoft SQL server driver written in go language
go-oci8

7.5 1.0 pq VS go-oci8

Oracle driver for Go using database/sql
goracle

6.3 1.3 pq VS goracle

Oracle driver for Go, using the ODPI-C driver.
godror

6.2 8.6 pq VS godror

GO DRiver for ORacle DB
firebirdsql

5.6 6.9 pq VS firebirdsql

Firebird RDBMS sql driver for Go (golang)
gofreetds

5.4 0.0 pq VS gofreetds

Go Sql Server database driver.
go-adodb

5.1 0.0 pq VS go-adodb

Microsoft ActiveX Object DataBase driver for go that using exp/sql
go-bqstreamer

5.1 0.0 pq VS go-bqstreamer

BigQuery fast and concurrent stream insert.
vertica-sql-go

4.2 3.8 pq VS vertica-sql-go

Official native Go client for the Vertica Analytics Database.
Sqinn-Go

3.8 3.7 pq VS Sqinn-Go

SQLite with pure Go
avatica

3.1 0.0 pq VS avatica

Apache Phoenix/Avatica SQL driver for database/sql.
bgc

2.9 0.0 pq VS bgc

Datastore Connectivity for BigQuery in go
pig

0.5 4.1 pq VS pig

Simple pgx wrapper to execute and scan query results

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README

pq - A pure Go postgres driver for Go's database/sql package

Install

go get github.com/lib/pq

Features

SSL
Handles bad connections for database/sql
Scan time.Time correctly (i.e. timestamp[tz], time[tz], date)
Scan binary blobs correctly (i.e. bytea)
Package for hstore support
COPY FROM support
pq.ParseURL for converting urls to connection strings for sql.Open.
Many libpq compatible environment variables
Unix socket support
Notifications: LISTEN/NOTIFY
pgpass support
GSS (Kerberos) auth

Tests

go test is used for testing. See [TESTS.md](TESTS.md) for more details.

Status

This package is currently in maintenance mode, which means:

It generally does not accept new features.
It does accept bug fixes and version compatability changes provided by the community.
Maintainers usually do not resolve reported issues.
Community members are encouraged to help each other with reported issues.

For users that require new features or reliable resolution of reported bugs, we recommend using pgx which is under active development.

pq

Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql