Establishing a Connection to PostgreSQL with GoLang


Introduction

In the modern era, Golang has been very popular as a programming language. Often developers building software need to connect to a PostgreSQL database from their Golang project making the use of the Go’s database package. This article will show how we can establish a connection to a PostgreSQL database using the Go’s database package.

Prerequisites

Before starting with the connection establishment, developers need to have their PostgreSQL connection details available. These are the values you have provided during the installation of the PostgreSQL server in your local environment. The information should look something like this:

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