Getting to Know Our Database

Working with a database

We most likely need to download an additional package for working with a database server such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB. In this case, we are using PostgreSQL and, therefore, need to download a Go package that allows us to communicate with PostgreSQL. There are two main Go packages for connecting to PostgreSQL—we are going to use the github.com/lib/pq package here, but it is up to you to decide which package best suits the needs of your project.

Note: There is another Go package for working with PostgreSQL called jackc/pgx.

We can download the package of our choice as follows: