pq

This library? https://github.com/bmizerany/pq If so, we're about to use it. Anything we should be forewarned about with respect to its use in production settings?

Is Go a good choice to create a CRUD web app? between the stdlib, gorilla toolking and the pg driver seems it wouldn't be so much of a pain, but the pg driver doesn't look ready for production use. https://github.com/bmizerany/pq

Argh! I felt rage reading: Package System or lack there of. Since Go compiles everything statically, you don't have to worry about packages at runtime. But how do you include libraries into your code? Simply by importing them via url, like so: import "github.com/bmizerany/pq" It was all good until that point.

Seriously? What is "cryptic" about db = sql.Open(...); db.Exec(); db.Query(); db.Close() etc.? From https://github.com/bmizerany/pq/blob/master/conn_test.go: func TestExec(t *testing.T) { db := openTestConn(t) defer db.Close() _, err := db.Exec("CREATE TEMP TABLE temp (a int)") if err != nil { t.Fatal(err) } r, err := db.Exec("INSERT INTO temp VALUES (1)") if err != nil { t.Fatal(err) } What is it exactly that you tried and failed? Because looking at conn_test.go the API is dead simple and pretty much like any other db API of this kind.

But then actually implementing something useful is cryptic and obscure. I tried figuring out how to connect to a postgresql server following the spaghetti documentation of https://github.com/bmizerany/pq and http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/ and have yet to find anything useful. Hacking around only leaves me with frustration. Searching around only leads me to unhelpful descriptions of what the GO command does in MSSQL Server.