This project is an integration test, testing various Go database drivers (for the database/sql package). To run these tests, in this directory, run: $ export GOPATH=$PWD ... ignoring your existing GOPATH. (This project imports all the 3rd party drivers here, to make things easier to track, and to enable local fixes while waiting for upstream.) Then: $ cd src/sqltest $ go test -v or, most of the time, skipping the annoyingly long tests: $ go test -v -short **************************************************************************** For MySQL: **************************************************************************** mysqladmin -uroot -proot create gosqltest To set set your MySQL user / password run: $ export GOSQLTEST_MYSQL_USER=user $ export GOSQLTEST_MYSQL_PASS=password **************************************************************************** For Postgres: (replacing "bradfitz" with $USER) **************************************************************************** root@bradfitzlap:/home/bradfitz# su - postgres postgres@bradfitzlap:~$ psql postgres=# create database gosqltest; CREATE DATABASE postgres=# CREATE USER bradfitz WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'gosqltest'; CREATE ROLE postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE gosqltest to bradfitz; GRANT **************************************************************************** For Oracle: (replacing "bradfitz" with $USER) **************************************************************************** root@bradfitzlap:/home/bradfitz# service oracle-xe start Iff you don't have a nice test database, then i.e.: sqlplus /nolog <<EOF CONN sys/sys AS SYSDBA CREATE DATABASE DB USER SYS IDENTIFIED BY SYS USER SYSTEM IDENTIFIED BY SYSTEM USER user IDENTIFIED BY password LOGFILE GROUP 1 ('/tmp/testdb-redo01.log') SIZE 20M MAXLOGFILES 5 MAXLOGMEMBERS 5 MAXLOGHISTORY 1 MAXDATAFILES 100 MAXINSTANCES 1 CHARACTER SET AL32UTF8 NATIONAL CHARACTER SET AL32UTF8 DATAFILE '/tmp/testdb-data01.dbf' EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp DATAFILE '/tmp/testdb-temp01.dbf' SIZE 10M REUSE UNDO TABLESPACE undotbs DATAFILE '/tmp/testdb-undo01.dbf' SIZE 10M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 512K MAXSIZE 200M; CREATE TABLESPACE data LOGGING DATAFILE '/tmp/testdb-data01.dbf' SIZE 10M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 512K MAXSIZE 100M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL; CREATE TABLESPACE indx LOGGING DATAFILE '/tmp/testdb-indx01.dbf' SIZE 10M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 512K MAXSIZE 100M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL; EXIT EOF (More can be read at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96521/create.htm#1003614) To set set your Oracle user/password@DB run: $ export GOSQLTEST_ORACLE=user/password@db this will result connecting to database user/password@sid The corner case where the sid is a full DSN (with port and everything) is not fully managed: only port 1521 on localhost is checked for accepting connections. If you really need the full DSN support, please mail me!