I've started the day trying to understand how GO works with databases but for some reason i hit a time out connection error with MySql which i could not resolve. so to stop wasting more time, i decided to switch to postgres and voila it worked.

I am new to GO programming but very much impressed by its neatness. GO concepts makes perfect sense although at times it takes a bit of getting used to. I also like the idea of building from the ground up. There is talk about speed but I will leave that to the experts.

Like almost every one I prefer to work with examples and straight diving in but i found reading a book on the grammar of the GO makes the learning experience more enjoyable.

code of this example is based on golang-nuts discussion.

Below is description of how I went about this simple example.

1. Installed postgres.app on Mac machine. postgres installation creates an postgres account for you.

2. created a database and table

   $ psql
   $ create database phonebook ;
   $ \c phonebook;
   $ create table contact (
     id serial primary key ,
     name varchar(255);
   $ phone_number varchar(255));
   $ \q
   

3. created a Go project on Eclipse 
4. imported pq driver `go get github.com/lib/pq`
5. looked for sample code and played with it until it worked.
6. wrote README.md to remind me of what i did (it maybe of use to others)


To do
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1. Comment on the code Extend code to cover full db operations 
2. Organise the code into packages 
3. Code is not DRY. too much repeated error handling