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About dburl

Package dburl parses and opens SQL database connection strings for Go, in a standard URL style. It handles the URL formats of PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3, Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server. It also handles most other SQL databases that have a public Go driver.

Overview | Quickstart | Examples | Schemes | Installing | Using | About

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Database Connection URL Overview

Supported database connection URLs are of the form:

protocol+transport://user:pass@host/dbname?opt1=a&opt2=b
protocol:/path/to/file

Where:

Component Description
protocol driver name or alias (see below)
transport "tcp", "udp", "unix" or driver name (odbc/oleodbc)
user username
pass password
host host
dbname* database, instance, or service name/ID to connect to
?opt1=... additional database driver options (see respective SQL driver for available options)

* For Microsoft SQL Server, /dbname can be /instance/dbname, where /instance is optional. For Oracle Database, /dbname takes the form /service/dbname. Here /service is the service name or SID, and /dbname is optional. See the examples below.

Quickstart

The dburl.Parse func parses a database connection URL in the format above:

import (
    "github.com/xo/dburl"
)

u, err := dburl.Parse("postgresql://user:pass@localhost/mydatabase/?sslmode=disable")
if err != nil { /* ... */ }

dburl.Open parses the URL and returns an open standard sql.DB database connection:

import (
    "github.com/xo/dburl"
)

db, err := dburl.Open("sqlite:mydatabase.sqlite3?loc=auto")
if err != nil { /* ... */ }

Example URLs

dburl.Parse and dburl.Open handle database connection URLs such as these:

postgres://user:pass@localhost/dbname
pg://user:pass@localhost/dbname?sslmode=disable
mysql://user:pass@localhost/dbname
mysql:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
sqlserver://user:pass@remote-host.com/dbname
mssql://user:pass@remote-host.com/instance/dbname
ms://user:pass@remote-host.com:port/instance/dbname?keepAlive=10
oracle://user:pass@somehost.com/sid
sap://user:pass@localhost/dbname
sqlite:/path/to/file.db
file:myfile.sqlite3?loc=auto
odbc+postgres://user:pass@localhost:port/dbname?option1=

Database Schemes, Aliases, and Drivers

The table lists every supported dburl protocol scheme, which is also the driver name, with its aliases and its Go driver:

Database Scheme / Tag Scheme Aliases Driver Package / Notes
PostgreSQL postgres pg, pgsql, postgresql github.com/lib/pq
MySQL mysql my, maria, aurora, mariadb, percona github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql
Microsoft SQL Server sqlserver ms, mssql, azuresql github.com/microsoft/go-mssqldb
Oracle Database oracle or, ora, oci, oci8, odpi, odpi-c github.com/sijms/go-ora/v3
SQLite3 sqlite3 sq, sqlite, file github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 †
DuckDB duckdb dk, ddb, duck, file github.com/duckdb/duckdb-go/v2 †
ClickHouse clickhouse ch github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-go/v2
CSVQ csvq cs, csv, tsv, json github.com/mithrandie/csvq-driver
Alibaba MaxCompute maxcompute mc sqlflow.org/gomaxcompute
Alibaba Tablestore ots ot, tablestore github.com/aliyun/aliyun-tablestore-go-sql-driver
Apache Avatica avatica av, phoenix github.com/apache/calcite-avatica-go/v5
Apache H2 h2 github.com/jmrobles/h2go
Apache Hive hive hi, hive2 sqlflow.org/gohive
Apache Ignite ignite ig, gridgain github.com/amsokol/ignite-go-client/sql
Apache Impala impala im github.com/sclgo/impala-go
AWS Athena athena s3, aws, awsathena github.com/uber/athenadriver/go
Azure CosmosDB cosmos cm, gocosmos github.com/btnguyen2k/gocosmos
Cassandra cassandra ca, scy, scylla, datastax, cql github.com/MichaelS11/go-cql-driver
ChaiSQL chai ci, genji, chaisql github.com/chaisql/chai
Couchbase couchbase n1, n1ql github.com/couchbase/go_n1ql
Cznic QL ql cznic, cznicql modernc.org/ql
Databend databend dd, bend github.com/datafuselabs/databend-go
Databricks databricks br, brick, bricks, databrick github.com/databricks/databricks-sql-go
DynamoDb dynamodb dy, dyn, dynamo, dynamodb github.com/btnguyen2k/godynamo
Exasol exasol ex, exa github.com/exasol/exasol-driver-go
Firebird firebird fb, firebirdsql github.com/nakagami/firebirdsql
FlightSQL flightsql fl, flight github.com/apache/arrow/go/v17/arrow/flight/flightsql/driver
Google BigQuery bigquery bq gorm.io/driver/bigquery/driver
Google Spanner spanner sp github.com/googleapis/go-sql-spanner
Microsoft ADODB adodb ad, ado github.com/mattn/go-adodb
ModernC SQLite3 moderncsqlite mq, modernsqlite modernc.org/sqlite
MySQL MyMySQL mymysql zm, mymy github.com/ziutek/mymysql/godrv
Netezza netezza nz, nzgo github.com/IBM/nzgo/v12
PostgreSQL PGX pgx px github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/stdlib
Presto presto pr, prs, prestos, prestodb, prestodbs github.com/prestodb/presto-go-client/v2
SAP ASE sapase ax, ase, tds github.com/thda/tds
SAP HANA saphana sa, sap, hana, hdb github.com/SAP/go-hdb/driver
Snowflake snowflake sf github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake/v2
Trino trino tr, trs, trinos github.com/trinodb/trino-go-client/trino
Vertica vertica ve github.com/vertica/vertica-sql-go
VoltDB voltdb vo, vdb, volt github.com/VoltDB/voltdb-client-go/voltdbclient
YDB ydb yd, yds, ydbs github.com/ydb-platform/ydb-go-sdk/v3
GO DRiver for ORacle godror gr github.com/godror/godror †
ODBC odbc od github.com/alexbrainman/odbc †
Amazon Redshift postgres rs, redshift github.com/lib/pq ‡
CockroachDB postgres cr, cdb, crdb, cockroach, cockroachdb github.com/lib/pq ‡
OLE ODBC adodb oo, ole, oleodbc github.com/mattn/go-adodb ‡
SingleStore MemSQL mysql me, memsql github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql ‡
TiDB mysql ti, tidb github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql ‡
Vitess Database mysql vt, vitess github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql ‡

† Requires CGO
‡ Wire compatible (see respective driver)

You can write any alias as alias:// in place of protocol://. dburl.Parse and dburl.Open treat the two the same.

Installing

Install dburl with go get:

$ go get github.com/xo/dburl@latest

Using

dburl does not import any Go SQL driver. It only parses and opens database connection URLs, so you must import the SQL driver yourself:

import (
    // import Microsoft SQL Server driver
    _ "github.com/microsoft/go-mssqldb"
)

See the database schemes table above for the Go driver that each scheme expects.

The dburl package documentation has more examples and the API details.

URL Parsing Rules

dburl.Parse and dburl.Open build on Go's standard net/url.URL type. The same rules and conventions apply as for Go's net/url.Parse func.

Example

A full example:

// _example/example.go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	_ "github.com/microsoft/go-mssqldb"
	"github.com/xo/dburl"
)

func main() {
	db, err := dburl.Open("sqlserver://user:pass@localhost/dbname")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	var name string
	if err := db.QueryRow(`SELECT name FROM mytable WHERE id=10`).Scan(&name); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Println("name:", name)
}

Scheme Resolution

On systems other than Windows, dburl resolves a path on disk, or a URL with a file: scheme, to a database driver:

  1. A directory resolves as a postgres: URL.
  2. A Unix socket resolves as a mysql: URL.
  3. For a file that exists, dburl reads the file header and resolves it as a sqlite3: or a duckdb: URL.
  4. For a file that does not exist, dburl matches the file extension against the known sqlite3: and duckdb: extensions.

To turn this off, set dburl.ResolveSchemeType to false. You can also supply your own dburl.Stat and dburl.OpenFile funcs instead:

import "github.com/xo/dburl"

func init() {
    dburl.ResolveSchemeType = false
}

About

dburl exists to support these projects:

  • usql - a universal command-line interface for SQL databases
  • dbtpl - a command-line tool to generate code for SQL databases

Documentation

Overview

Package dburl parses and opens SQL database connection strings for Go, in the style of net/url.URL.

It handles the URL formats of PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3, Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server. It also handles most other SQL databases that have a public Go driver.

See the package documentation README section for more details.

Example 
package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/xo/dburl"
)

func main() {
	db, err := dburl.Open("my://user:pass@host:1234/dbname")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer db.Close()
	res, err := db.Query("SELECT ...")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	for res.Next() {
		/* ... */
	}
	if err := res.Err(); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}
Example (Parse) 
package main

import (
	"database/sql"
	"log"

	"github.com/xo/dburl"
)

func main() {
	u, err := dburl.Parse("pg://user:pass@host:1234/dbname")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	db, err := sql.Open(u.Driver, u.DSN)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer db.Close()
	res, err := db.Query("SELECT ...")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	for res.Next() {
		/* ... */
	}
	if err := res.Err(); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

Index

Examples

Constants

This section is empty.

Variables

View Source 
var OdbcIgnoreQueryPrefixes []string

OdbcIgnoreQueryPrefixes are the query prefixes to ignore when generating the odbc DSN. Used by GenOdbc.

View Source 
var OpenFile = func(name string) (fs.File, error) {
	return os.OpenFile(name, os.O_RDONLY, 0)
}

OpenFile is the default open file func.

Used internally to read file headers.

View Source 
var ResolveSchemeType = true

ResolveSchemeType is a configuration setting to open paths on disk using SchemeType, Stat, and OpenFile. Set this to false in an `init()` func to disable this behavior.

View Source 
var Stat = func(name string) (fs.FileInfo, error) {
	return fs.Stat(os.DirFS(filepath.Dir(name)), filepath.Base(name))
}

Stat is the default stat func.

Used internally to stat files, and used when generating the DSNs for postgres://, mysql://, file:// schemes, and opaque URL's.

Functions

func BuildURL added in v0.23.0 

func BuildURL(components map[string]any) (string, error)

BuildURL creates a dsn using the mapped components.

Recognized components are: 

protocol, proto, scheme
transport
username, user
password, pass
hostname, host
port
path, file, opaque
database, dbname, db
instance
parameters, params, options, opts, query, q

See BuildURL for more information.

func FileTypes added in v0.18.0 

func FileTypes() []string

FileTypes returns the registered file types.

func GenAdodb added in v0.9.0 

func GenAdodb(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenAdodb generates a adodb DSN from the passed URL.

func GenCassandra 

func GenCassandra(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenCassandra generates a cassandra DSN from the passed URL.

func GenClickhouse 

func GenClickhouse(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenClickhouse generates a clickhouse DSN from the passed URL.

func GenCosmos added in v0.2.0 

func GenCosmos(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenCosmos generates a cosmos DSN from the passed URL.

func GenDatabend added in v0.12.5 

func GenDatabend(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenDatabend generates a databend DSN from the passed URL.

func GenDatabricks added in v0.19.0 

func GenDatabricks(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenDatabricks generates a databricks DSN from the passed URL.

func GenDuckDB added in v0.23.3 

func GenDuckDB(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenDuckDB generates a duckdb dsn from the passed URL.

func GenDynamo added in v0.19.0 

func GenDynamo(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenDynamo generates a dynamo DSN from the passed URL.

func GenExasol added in v0.8.5 

func GenExasol(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenExasol generates a exasol DSN from the passed URL.

func GenFirebird 

func GenFirebird(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenFirebird generates a firebird DSN from the passed URL.

func GenFromURL 

func GenFromURL(urlstr string) func(*URL) (string, string, error)

GenFromURL returns a func that generates a DSN based on parameters of the passed URL.

func GenGodror added in v0.9.0 

func GenGodror(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenGodror generates a godror DSN from the passed URL.

func GenIgnite 

func GenIgnite(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenIgnite generates an ignite DSN from the passed URL.

func GenMymysql added in v0.9.0 

func GenMymysql(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenMymysql generates a mymysql DSN from the passed URL.

func GenMysql added in v0.9.0 

func GenMysql(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenMysql generates a mysql DSN from the passed URL.

func GenOdbc added in v0.9.0 

func GenOdbc(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenOdbc generates a odbc DSN from the passed URL.

func GenOleodbc added in v0.9.0 

func GenOleodbc(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenOleodbc generates a oleodbc DSN from the passed URL.

func GenOpaque 

func GenOpaque(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenOpaque generates a opaque file path DSN from the passed URL.

func GenPostgres 

func GenPostgres(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenPostgres generates a postgres DSN from the passed URL.

func GenPresto 

func GenPresto(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenPresto generates a presto DSN from the passed URL.

func GenScheme 

func GenScheme(scheme string) func(*URL) (string, string, error)

GenScheme returns a generator that will generate a scheme based on the passed scheme DSN.

func GenSnowflake 

func GenSnowflake(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenSnowflake generates a snowflake DSN from the passed URL.

func GenSpanner added in v0.2.0 

func GenSpanner(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenSpanner generates a spanner DSN from the passed URL.

func GenSqlserver added in v0.9.0 

func GenSqlserver(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenSqlserver generates a sqlserver DSN from the passed URL.

func GenTableStore added in v0.11.0 

func GenTableStore(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenTableStore generates a tablestore DSN from the passed URL.

func GenVoltdb added in v0.9.0 

func GenVoltdb(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenVoltdb generates a voltdb DSN from the passed URL.

func GenYDB added in v0.19.0 

func GenYDB(u *URL) (string, string, error)

GenYDB generates a ydb dsn from the passed URL.

func Open 

func Open(urlstr string) (*sql.DB, error)

Open takes a URL string, also known as a DSN, in the form of "protocol+transport://user:pass@host/dbname?option1=a&option2=b" and opens a standard sql.DB connection.

See Parse for information on formatting URL strings to work properly with Open.

func OpenMap added in v0.23.0 

func OpenMap(components map[string]any) (*sql.DB, error)

OpenMap takes a map of URL components and opens a standard sql.DB connection.

See BuildURL for information on the recognized map components.

func Protocols added in v0.12.0 

func Protocols(name string) []string

Protocols returns list of all valid protocol aliases for a registered Scheme name.

func Register 

func Register(scheme Scheme)

Register registers a Scheme.

func RegisterAlias 

func RegisterAlias(name, alias string)

RegisterAlias registers an additional alias for a registered scheme.

func RegisterFileType added in v0.18.0 

func RegisterFileType(driver string, f func([]byte) bool, ext string)

RegisterFileType registers a file header recognition func, and extension regexp.

func SchemeDriverAndAliases 

func SchemeDriverAndAliases(name string) (string, []string)

SchemeDriverAndAliases returns the registered driver and aliases for a database scheme.

func SchemeType added in v0.17.0 

func SchemeType(name string) (string, error)

SchemeType returns the scheme type for a path.

func ShortAlias added in v0.12.4 

func ShortAlias(name string) string

ShortAlias returns the short alias for the scheme name.

Types

type Error 

type Error string

Error is an error. 

const (
	// ErrInvalidDatabaseScheme is the invalid database scheme error.
	ErrInvalidDatabaseScheme Error = "invalid database scheme"
	// ErrUnknownDatabaseScheme is the unknown database type error.
	ErrUnknownDatabaseScheme Error = "unknown database scheme"
	// ErrUnknownFileHeader is the unknown file header error.
	ErrUnknownFileHeader Error = "unknown file header"
	// ErrUnknownFileExtension is the unknown file extension error.
	ErrUnknownFileExtension Error = "unknown file extension"
	// ErrInvalidTransportProtocol is the invalid transport protocol error.
	ErrInvalidTransportProtocol Error = "invalid transport protocol"
	// ErrRelativePathNotSupported is the relative paths not supported error.
	ErrRelativePathNotSupported Error = "relative path not supported"
	// ErrMissingHost is the missing host error.
	ErrMissingHost Error = "missing host"
	// ErrMissingPath is the missing path error.
	ErrMissingPath Error = "missing path"
	// ErrMissingUser is the missing user error.
	ErrMissingUser Error = "missing user"
	// ErrInvalidQuery is the invalid query error.
	ErrInvalidQuery Error = "invalid query"
)

Error values.

func (Error) Error 

func (err Error) Error() string

Error satisfies the error interface.

type Scheme 

type Scheme struct {
	// Driver is the name of the SQL driver. [Parse] sets it as the Scheme on
	// the returned URL, and the standard sql.Open calls expect it.
	//
	// Note: a 2 letter alias will always be registered for the Driver as the
	// first 2 characters of the Driver, unless one of the Aliases includes an
	// alias that is 2 characters.
	Driver string
	// Generator is the func responsible for generating a DSN based on parsed
	// URL information.
	//
	// Note: this func must not modify the passed URL.
	Generator func(*URL) (string, string, error)
	// Transport are allowed protocol transport types for the scheme.
	Transport Transport
	// Opaque toggles Parse to not re-process URLs with an "opaque" component.
	Opaque bool
	// Aliases are any additional aliases for the scheme.
	Aliases []string
	// Override is the Go SQL driver to use instead of Driver.
	//
	// Used for "wire compatible" driver schemes.
	Override string
}

Scheme wraps information used for registering a database URL scheme for use with Parse/Open.

func BaseSchemes 

func BaseSchemes() []Scheme

BaseSchemes returns the supported base schemes.

func Unregister 

func Unregister(name string) *Scheme

Unregister unregisters a scheme and all associated aliases, returning the removed Scheme.

type Transport added in v0.3.0 

type Transport uint

Transport is the allowed transport protocol types in a database URL scheme. 

const (
	TransportNone Transport = 0
	TransportTCP  Transport = 1
	TransportUDP  Transport = 2
	TransportUnix Transport = 4
	TransportAny  Transport = 8
)

Transport types.

type URL 

type URL struct {
	// URL is the base [net/url.URL].
	url.URL
	// OriginalScheme is the original parsed scheme (ie, "sq", "mysql+unix", "sap", etc).
	OriginalScheme string
	// Transport is the specified transport protocol (ie, "tcp", "udp",
	// "unix", ...), if provided.
	Transport string
	// Driver is the non-aliased SQL driver name to use in a call to
	// [sql.Open].
	Driver string
	// GoDriver is the Go SQL driver name to use when opening a connection to
	// the database. Used by Microsoft SQL Server's azuresql:// URLs, as the
	// wire-compatible alias style uses a different syntax style.
	GoDriver string
	// UnaliasedDriver is the unaliased driver name.
	UnaliasedDriver string
	// DSN is the built connection "data source name" that can be used in a
	// call to [sql.Open].
	DSN string
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

URL wraps the standard net/url.URL type, adding OriginalScheme, Transport, Driver, Unaliased, and DSN strings.

func FromMap added in v0.23.0 

func FromMap(components map[string]any) (*URL, error)

FromMap creates a URL using the mapped components.

Recognized components are: 

protocol, proto, scheme
transport
username, user
password, pass
hostname, host
port
path, file, opaque
database, dbname, db
instance
parameters, params, options, opts, query, q

See BuildURL for more information.

func Parse 

func Parse(urlstr string) (*URL, error)

Parse parses a URL string, similar to the standard net/url.Parse.

Handles parsing OriginalScheme, Transport, Driver, Unaliased, and DSN fields.

Note: if the URL has a Opaque component (ie, URLs not specified as "scheme://" but "scheme:"), and the database scheme does not support opaque components, Parse will attempt to re-process the URL as "scheme://<opaque>".

func (*URL) Normalize 

func (u *URL) Normalize(sep, empty string, cut int) string

Normalize returns the driver, host, port, database, and user name of a URL, joined with sep, populating blank fields with empty.

func (*URL) Short 

func (u *URL) Short() string

Short provides a short description of the user, host, and database.

func (*URL) String 

func (u *URL) String() string

String satisfies the fmt.Stringer interface.

Source Files

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Directories

Path Synopsis
_example/example.go
 _example/example.go
Package passfile provides a mechanism for reading database credentials from passfiles.
 Package passfile provides a mechanism for reading database credentials from passfiles.

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