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README.md

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 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.