Connect with Go Early availability

Connect to an Aiven for AlloyDB Omni database from Go, making use of the pg library.

Prerequisites

• Aiven for AlloyDB Omni service running

• Go pq library, which you can get by running:

  go get github.com/lib/pq

• CA certificate (a file named ca.pem) downloaded from the service's Overview page

Connect to a service

1. Create a file named main.go with the following content:

   package main
   
   import (
   	"database/sql"
   	"fmt"
   	"log"
   	"net/url"
   
   	_ "github.com/lib/pq"
   )
   
   func main() {
   	serviceURI := "POSTGRESQL_URI"
   
   	conn, _ := url.Parse(serviceURI)
   	conn.RawQuery = "sslmode=verify-ca;sslrootcert=ca.pem"
   
   	db, err := sql.Open("postgres", conn.String())
   
   	if err != nil {
   		log.Fatal(err)
   	}
   	defer db.Close()
   
   	rows, err := db.Query("SELECT version()")
   	if err != nil {
   		panic(err)
   	}
   
   	for rows.Next() {
   		var result string
   		err = rows.Scan(&result)
   		if err != nil {
   			panic(err)
   		}
   		fmt.Printf("Version: %s\n", result)
   	}
   }

   Replace SERVICE_URI with the service URI available on the Overview page in the Aiven Console.

   This code opens a connection to the database, runs a query checking the database version, and prints the response.

   note

   To verify the SSL certificate, this code specifies sslmode as verify-ca and adds the location of the certificate.

2. Run the code:

   go run main.go

Expect output like:

PostgreSQL 15.5 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by [...]