Golang: Connect to Postgres and selecting data from a table

You will need to get the Postgres driver first. In the terminal type:

go get github.com/lib/pq

Connecting to Postgres

package main

import (
    _ "github.com/lib/pq"
    "database/sql"
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    // Connect to the DB, panic if failed
    db, err := sql.Open("postgres", "postgres://user:password@localhost/dbName?sslmode=disable")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(`Could not connect to db`)
        panic(err)
    }
    defer db.Close()
}

Selecting data from a table

After connecting to the database, you can do the following:

rows, err := db.Query(`SELECT * FROM table WHERE name=$1`, `Moz`)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

var col1 string
var col2 string
for rows.Next() {
    rows.Scan(&col1, &col2)
    fmt.Println(col1, col2)
}