Introducing pq, a pure PostgreSQL database driver for Go

In Chapter 4, Simplifying RESTful Services with Popular Go Frameworks, we used a driver package called go-sqlite3 to work with SQLite3. In the same way, pq is a database driver package available for Go. We can install that library system-wide by using the go get command, as follows:

go get github.com/lib/pq

We can also use the dep tool to install this package. We'll use it in this example. Let's look at the steps for installation here:

1. Create a new project directory called basicExample in GOPATH, as follows:

touch -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/git-user/chapter7/basicExample

2. Now, traverse to the basicExample directory and use dep to install the pq package in the directory, like this:

dep init
dep ensure --add github.com/lib/pq

This creates a few configuration files and adds a package to the vendor in the same directory...