Jackc/pgx

External

• https://github.com/jackc/pgx
• https://github.com/jackc/pgx/wiki/Getting-started-with-pgx
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXMSWhcHCf8

Internal

• PostgreSQL Support in Go

Overview

jackc/pgx is a PostgreSQL low-level, high performance driver and toolkit that exposes PostgreSQL-specific features such as LISTEN/NOTIFY and COPY. It also includes an adapter for the standard database/sql package, but using database/sql is optional. It understands PostgreSQL data types. jackc/pgx is recommended when the application only targets PostgreSQL.

Installation

go get github.com/jackc/pgx/v5

Database Operations

Open a Connection

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5"
)

...

ctx := context.Background()
connectionString := "postgres://postgres:@localhost:5432"
conn, err := pgx.Connect(ctx, connectionString)
if err != nil {
  ...
}
defer func() {
  if err = conn.Close(ctx); err != nil {
    ...
  }
}()

if err = conn.Ping(ctx); err != nil {
  ...
}
fmt.Printf("success\n")