package driver

Import Path
	database/sql/driver (on go.dev)

Dependency Relation
	imports 6 packages, and imported by one package

Involved Source Files Package driver defines interfaces to be implemented by database drivers as used by package sql. Most code should use the [database/sql] package. The driver interface has evolved over time. Drivers should implement [Connector] and [DriverContext] interfaces. The Connector.Connect and Driver.Open methods should never return [ErrBadConn]. [ErrBadConn] should only be returned from [Validator], [SessionResetter], or a query method if the connection is already in an invalid (e.g. closed) state. All [Conn] implementations should implement the following interfaces: [Pinger], [SessionResetter], and [Validator]. If named parameters or context are supported, the driver's [Conn] should implement: [ExecerContext], [QueryerContext], [ConnPrepareContext], and [ConnBeginTx]. To support custom data types, implement [NamedValueChecker]. [NamedValueChecker] also allows queries to accept per-query options as a parameter by returning [ErrRemoveArgument] from CheckNamedValue. If multiple result sets are supported, [Rows] should implement [RowsNextResultSet]. If the driver knows how to describe the types present in the returned result it should implement the following interfaces: [RowsColumnTypeScanType], [RowsColumnTypeDatabaseTypeName], [RowsColumnTypeLength], [RowsColumnTypeNullable], and [RowsColumnTypePrecisionScale]. A given row value may also return a [Rows] type, which may represent a database cursor value. If a [Conn] implements [Validator], then the IsValid method is called before returning the connection to the connection pool. If an entry in the connection pool implements [SessionResetter], then ResetSession is called before reusing the connection for another query. If a connection is never returned to the connection pool but is immediately reused, then ResetSession is called prior to reuse but IsValid is not called. types.go
Package-Level Type Names (total 36)
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ColumnConverter may be optionally implemented by [Stmt] if the statement is aware of its own columns' types and can convert from any type to a driver [Value]. Deprecated: Drivers should implement [NamedValueChecker]. ColumnConverter returns a ValueConverter for the provided column index. If the type of a specific column isn't known or shouldn't be handled specially, [DefaultParameterConverter] can be returned.
Conn is a connection to a database. It is not used concurrently by multiple goroutines. Conn is assumed to be stateful. Begin starts and returns a new transaction. Deprecated: Drivers should implement ConnBeginTx instead (or additionally). Close invalidates and potentially stops any current prepared statements and transactions, marking this connection as no longer in use. Because the sql package maintains a free pool of connections and only calls Close when there's a surplus of idle connections, it shouldn't be necessary for drivers to do their own connection caching. Drivers must ensure all network calls made by Close do not block indefinitely (e.g. apply a timeout). Prepare returns a prepared statement, bound to this connection. Conn : io.Closer func Connector.Connect(context.Context) (Conn, error) func Driver.Open(name string) (Conn, error)
ConnBeginTx enhances the [Conn] interface with context and [TxOptions]. BeginTx starts and returns a new transaction. If the context is canceled by the user the sql package will call Tx.Rollback before discarding and closing the connection. This must check opts.Isolation to determine if there is a set isolation level. If the driver does not support a non-default level and one is set or if there is a non-default isolation level that is not supported, an error must be returned. This must also check opts.ReadOnly to determine if the read-only value is true to either set the read-only transaction property if supported or return an error if it is not supported.
A Connector represents a driver in a fixed configuration and can create any number of equivalent Conns for use by multiple goroutines. A Connector can be passed to [database/sql.OpenDB], to allow drivers to implement their own [database/sql.DB] constructors, or returned by [DriverContext]'s OpenConnector method, to allow drivers access to context and to avoid repeated parsing of driver configuration. If a Connector implements [io.Closer], the [database/sql.DB.Close] method will call the Close method and return error (if any). Connect returns a connection to the database. Connect may return a cached connection (one previously closed), but doing so is unnecessary; the sql package maintains a pool of idle connections for efficient re-use. The provided context.Context is for dialing purposes only (see net.DialContext) and should not be stored or used for other purposes. A default timeout should still be used when dialing as a connection pool may call Connect asynchronously to any query. The returned connection is only used by one goroutine at a time. Driver returns the underlying Driver of the Connector, mainly to maintain compatibility with the Driver method on sql.DB. func DriverContext.OpenConnector(name string) (Connector, error) func database/sql.OpenDB(c Connector) *sql.DB
ConnPrepareContext enhances the [Conn] interface with context. PrepareContext returns a prepared statement, bound to this connection. context is for the preparation of the statement, it must not store the context within the statement itself.
Driver is the interface that must be implemented by a database driver. Database drivers may implement [DriverContext] for access to contexts and to parse the name only once for a pool of connections, instead of once per connection. Open returns a new connection to the database. The name is a string in a driver-specific format. Open may return a cached connection (one previously closed), but doing so is unnecessary; the sql package maintains a pool of idle connections for efficient re-use. The returned connection is only used by one goroutine at a time. func Connector.Driver() Driver func database/sql.(*DB).Driver() Driver func database/sql.Register(name string, driver Driver)
If a [Driver] implements DriverContext, then [database/sql.DB] will call OpenConnector to obtain a [Connector] and then invoke that [Connector]'s Connect method to obtain each needed connection, instead of invoking the [Driver]'s Open method for each connection. The two-step sequence allows drivers to parse the name just once and also provides access to per-[Conn] contexts. OpenConnector must parse the name in the same format that Driver.Open parses the name parameter.
Execer is an optional interface that may be implemented by a [Conn]. If a [Conn] implements neither [ExecerContext] nor [Execer], the [database/sql.DB.Exec] will first prepare a query, execute the statement, and then close the statement. Exec may return [ErrSkip]. Deprecated: Drivers should implement [ExecerContext] instead. ( Execer) Exec(query string, args []Value) (Result, error)
ExecerContext is an optional interface that may be implemented by a [Conn]. If a [Conn] does not implement [ExecerContext], the [database/sql.DB.Exec] will fall back to [Execer]; if the Conn does not implement Execer either, [database/sql.DB.Exec] will first prepare a query, execute the statement, and then close the statement. ExecContext may return [ErrSkip]. ExecContext must honor the context timeout and return when the context is canceled. ( ExecerContext) ExecContext(ctx context.Context, query string, args []NamedValue) (Result, error)
IsolationLevel is the transaction isolation level stored in [TxOptions]. This type should be considered identical to [database/sql.IsolationLevel] along with any values defined on it.
NamedValue holds both the value name and value. If the Name is not empty it should be used for the parameter identifier and not the ordinal position. Name will not have a symbol prefix. Ordinal position of the parameter starting from one and is always set. Value is the parameter value. func ExecerContext.ExecContext(ctx context.Context, query string, args []NamedValue) (Result, error) func NamedValueChecker.CheckNamedValue(*NamedValue) error func QueryerContext.QueryContext(ctx context.Context, query string, args []NamedValue) (Rows, error) func StmtExecContext.ExecContext(ctx context.Context, args []NamedValue) (Result, error) func StmtQueryContext.QueryContext(ctx context.Context, args []NamedValue) (Rows, error)
NamedValueChecker may be optionally implemented by [Conn] or [Stmt]. It provides the driver more control to handle Go and database types beyond the default [Value] types allowed. The [database/sql] package checks for value checkers in the following order, stopping at the first found match: Stmt.NamedValueChecker, Conn.NamedValueChecker, Stmt.ColumnConverter, [DefaultParameterConverter]. If CheckNamedValue returns [ErrRemoveArgument], the [NamedValue] will not be included in the final query arguments. This may be used to pass special options to the query itself. If [ErrSkip] is returned the column converter error checking path is used for the argument. Drivers may wish to return [ErrSkip] after they have exhausted their own special cases. CheckNamedValue is called before passing arguments to the driver and is called in place of any ColumnConverter. CheckNamedValue must do type validation and conversion as appropriate for the driver.
NotNull is a type that implements [ValueConverter] by disallowing nil values but otherwise delegating to another [ValueConverter]. Converter ValueConverter ( NotNull) ConvertValue(v any) (Value, error) NotNull : ValueConverter
Null is a type that implements [ValueConverter] by allowing nil values but otherwise delegating to another [ValueConverter]. Converter ValueConverter ( Null) ConvertValue(v any) (Value, error) Null : ValueConverter
Pinger is an optional interface that may be implemented by a [Conn]. If a [Conn] does not implement Pinger, the [database/sql.DB.Ping] and [database/sql.DB.PingContext] will check if there is at least one [Conn] available. If Conn.Ping returns [ErrBadConn], [database/sql.DB.Ping] and [database/sql.DB.PingContext] will remove the [Conn] from pool. ( Pinger) Ping(ctx context.Context) error
Queryer is an optional interface that may be implemented by a [Conn]. If a [Conn] implements neither [QueryerContext] nor [Queryer], the [database/sql.DB.Query] will first prepare a query, execute the statement, and then close the statement. Query may return [ErrSkip]. Deprecated: Drivers should implement [QueryerContext] instead. ( Queryer) Query(query string, args []Value) (Rows, error)
QueryerContext is an optional interface that may be implemented by a [Conn]. If a [Conn] does not implement QueryerContext, the [database/sql.DB.Query] will fall back to [Queryer]; if the [Conn] does not implement [Queryer] either, [database/sql.DB.Query] will first prepare a query, execute the statement, and then close the statement. QueryContext may return [ErrSkip]. QueryContext must honor the context timeout and return when the context is canceled. ( QueryerContext) QueryContext(ctx context.Context, query string, args []NamedValue) (Rows, error)
Result is the result of a query execution. LastInsertId returns the database's auto-generated ID after, for example, an INSERT into a table with primary key. RowsAffected returns the number of rows affected by the query. RowsAffected database/sql.Result (interface) Result : database/sql.Result func Execer.Exec(query string, args []Value) (Result, error) func ExecerContext.ExecContext(ctx context.Context, query string, args []NamedValue) (Result, error) func Stmt.Exec(args []Value) (Result, error) func StmtExecContext.ExecContext(ctx context.Context, args []NamedValue) (Result, error)
Rows is an iterator over an executed query's results. Close closes the rows iterator. Columns returns the names of the columns. The number of columns of the result is inferred from the length of the slice. If a particular column name isn't known, an empty string should be returned for that entry. Next is called to populate the next row of data into the provided slice. The provided slice will be the same size as the Columns() are wide. Next should return io.EOF when there are no more rows. The dest should not be written to outside of Next. Care should be taken when closing Rows not to modify a buffer held in dest. RowsColumnTypeDatabaseTypeName (interface) RowsColumnTypeLength (interface) RowsColumnTypeNullable (interface) RowsColumnTypePrecisionScale (interface) RowsColumnTypeScanType (interface) RowsNextResultSet (interface) Rows : io.Closer func Queryer.Query(query string, args []Value) (Rows, error) func QueryerContext.QueryContext(ctx context.Context, query string, args []NamedValue) (Rows, error) func Stmt.Query(args []Value) (Rows, error) func StmtQueryContext.QueryContext(ctx context.Context, args []NamedValue) (Rows, error)
RowsAffected implements [Result] for an INSERT or UPDATE operation which mutates a number of rows. ( RowsAffected) LastInsertId() (int64, error) ( RowsAffected) RowsAffected() (int64, error) RowsAffected : Result RowsAffected : database/sql.Result
RowsColumnTypeDatabaseTypeName may be implemented by [Rows]. It should return the database system type name without the length. Type names should be uppercase. Examples of returned types: "VARCHAR", "NVARCHAR", "VARCHAR2", "CHAR", "TEXT", "DECIMAL", "SMALLINT", "INT", "BIGINT", "BOOL", "[]BIGINT", "JSONB", "XML", "TIMESTAMP". Close closes the rows iterator. ( RowsColumnTypeDatabaseTypeName) ColumnTypeDatabaseTypeName(index int) string Columns returns the names of the columns. The number of columns of the result is inferred from the length of the slice. If a particular column name isn't known, an empty string should be returned for that entry. Next is called to populate the next row of data into the provided slice. The provided slice will be the same size as the Columns() are wide. Next should return io.EOF when there are no more rows. The dest should not be written to outside of Next. Care should be taken when closing Rows not to modify a buffer held in dest. RowsColumnTypeDatabaseTypeName : Rows RowsColumnTypeDatabaseTypeName : io.Closer
RowsColumnTypeLength may be implemented by [Rows]. It should return the length of the column type if the column is a variable length type. If the column is not a variable length type ok should return false. If length is not limited other than system limits, it should return [math.MaxInt64]. The following are examples of returned values for various types: TEXT (math.MaxInt64, true) varchar(10) (10, true) nvarchar(10) (10, true) decimal (0, false) int (0, false) bytea(30) (30, true) Close closes the rows iterator. ( RowsColumnTypeLength) ColumnTypeLength(index int) (length int64, ok bool) Columns returns the names of the columns. The number of columns of the result is inferred from the length of the slice. If a particular column name isn't known, an empty string should be returned for that entry. Next is called to populate the next row of data into the provided slice. The provided slice will be the same size as the Columns() are wide. Next should return io.EOF when there are no more rows. The dest should not be written to outside of Next. Care should be taken when closing Rows not to modify a buffer held in dest. RowsColumnTypeLength : Rows RowsColumnTypeLength : io.Closer
RowsColumnTypeNullable may be implemented by [Rows]. The nullable value should be true if it is known the column may be null, or false if the column is known to be not nullable. If the column nullability is unknown, ok should be false. Close closes the rows iterator. ( RowsColumnTypeNullable) ColumnTypeNullable(index int) (nullable, ok bool) Columns returns the names of the columns. The number of columns of the result is inferred from the length of the slice. If a particular column name isn't known, an empty string should be returned for that entry. Next is called to populate the next row of data into the provided slice. The provided slice will be the same size as the Columns() are wide. Next should return io.EOF when there are no more rows. The dest should not be written to outside of Next. Care should be taken when closing Rows not to modify a buffer held in dest. RowsColumnTypeNullable : Rows RowsColumnTypeNullable : io.Closer
RowsColumnTypePrecisionScale may be implemented by [Rows]. It should return the precision and scale for decimal types. If not applicable, ok should be false. The following are examples of returned values for various types: decimal(38, 4) (38, 4, true) int (0, 0, false) decimal (math.MaxInt64, math.MaxInt64, true) Close closes the rows iterator. ( RowsColumnTypePrecisionScale) ColumnTypePrecisionScale(index int) (precision, scale int64, ok bool) Columns returns the names of the columns. The number of columns of the result is inferred from the length of the slice. If a particular column name isn't known, an empty string should be returned for that entry. Next is called to populate the next row of data into the provided slice. The provided slice will be the same size as the Columns() are wide. Next should return io.EOF when there are no more rows. The dest should not be written to outside of Next. Care should be taken when closing Rows not to modify a buffer held in dest. RowsColumnTypePrecisionScale : Rows RowsColumnTypePrecisionScale : io.Closer
RowsColumnTypeScanType may be implemented by [Rows]. It should return the value type that can be used to scan types into. For example, the database column type "bigint" this should return "[reflect.TypeOf](int64(0))". Close closes the rows iterator. ( RowsColumnTypeScanType) ColumnTypeScanType(index int) reflect.Type Columns returns the names of the columns. The number of columns of the result is inferred from the length of the slice. If a particular column name isn't known, an empty string should be returned for that entry. Next is called to populate the next row of data into the provided slice. The provided slice will be the same size as the Columns() are wide. Next should return io.EOF when there are no more rows. The dest should not be written to outside of Next. Care should be taken when closing Rows not to modify a buffer held in dest. RowsColumnTypeScanType : Rows RowsColumnTypeScanType : io.Closer
RowsNextResultSet extends the [Rows] interface by providing a way to signal the driver to advance to the next result set. Close closes the rows iterator. Columns returns the names of the columns. The number of columns of the result is inferred from the length of the slice. If a particular column name isn't known, an empty string should be returned for that entry. HasNextResultSet is called at the end of the current result set and reports whether there is another result set after the current one. Next is called to populate the next row of data into the provided slice. The provided slice will be the same size as the Columns() are wide. Next should return io.EOF when there are no more rows. The dest should not be written to outside of Next. Care should be taken when closing Rows not to modify a buffer held in dest. NextResultSet advances the driver to the next result set even if there are remaining rows in the current result set. NextResultSet should return io.EOF when there are no more result sets. RowsNextResultSet : Rows RowsNextResultSet : io.Closer
SessionResetter may be implemented by [Conn] to allow drivers to reset the session state associated with the connection and to signal a bad connection. ResetSession is called prior to executing a query on the connection if the connection has been used before. If the driver returns ErrBadConn the connection is discarded.
Stmt is a prepared statement. It is bound to a [Conn] and not used by multiple goroutines concurrently. Close closes the statement. As of Go 1.1, a Stmt will not be closed if it's in use by any queries. Drivers must ensure all network calls made by Close do not block indefinitely (e.g. apply a timeout). Exec executes a query that doesn't return rows, such as an INSERT or UPDATE. Deprecated: Drivers should implement StmtExecContext instead (or additionally). NumInput returns the number of placeholder parameters. If NumInput returns >= 0, the sql package will sanity check argument counts from callers and return errors to the caller before the statement's Exec or Query methods are called. NumInput may also return -1, if the driver doesn't know its number of placeholders. In that case, the sql package will not sanity check Exec or Query argument counts. Query executes a query that may return rows, such as a SELECT. Deprecated: Drivers should implement StmtQueryContext instead (or additionally). Stmt : io.Closer func Conn.Prepare(query string) (Stmt, error) func ConnPrepareContext.PrepareContext(ctx context.Context, query string) (Stmt, error)
StmtExecContext enhances the [Stmt] interface by providing Exec with context. ExecContext executes a query that doesn't return rows, such as an INSERT or UPDATE. ExecContext must honor the context timeout and return when it is canceled.
StmtQueryContext enhances the [Stmt] interface by providing Query with context. QueryContext executes a query that may return rows, such as a SELECT. QueryContext must honor the context timeout and return when it is canceled.
Tx is a transaction. ( Tx) Commit() error ( Tx) Rollback() error *database/sql.Tx func Conn.Begin() (Tx, error) func ConnBeginTx.BeginTx(ctx context.Context, opts TxOptions) (Tx, error)
TxOptions holds the transaction options. This type should be considered identical to [database/sql.TxOptions]. Isolation IsolationLevel ReadOnly bool func ConnBeginTx.BeginTx(ctx context.Context, opts TxOptions) (Tx, error)
Validator may be implemented by [Conn] to allow drivers to signal if a connection is valid or if it should be discarded. If implemented, drivers may return the underlying error from queries, even if the connection should be discarded by the connection pool. IsValid is called prior to placing the connection into the connection pool. The connection will be discarded if false is returned. go/token.Pos *go/token.Position internal/reflectlite.Value net/netip.Addr net/netip.AddrPort net/netip.Prefix reflect.Value *text/scanner.Position *text/scanner.Scanner
Value is a value that drivers must be able to handle. It is either nil, a type handled by a database driver's [NamedValueChecker] interface, or an instance of one of these types: int64 float64 bool []byte string time.Time If the driver supports cursors, a returned Value may also implement the [Rows] interface in this package. This is used, for example, when a user selects a cursor such as "select cursor(select * from my_table) from dual". If the [Rows] from the select is closed, the cursor [Rows] will also be closed. func NotNull.ConvertValue(v any) (Value, error) func Null.ConvertValue(v any) (Value, error) func ValueConverter.ConvertValue(v any) (Value, error) func Valuer.Value() (Value, error) func database/sql.Null[T].Value() (Value, error) func database/sql.NullBool.Value() (Value, error) func database/sql.NullByte.Value() (Value, error) func database/sql.NullFloat64.Value() (Value, error) func database/sql.NullInt16.Value() (Value, error) func database/sql.NullInt32.Value() (Value, error) func database/sql.NullInt64.Value() (Value, error) func database/sql.NullString.Value() (Value, error) func database/sql.NullTime.Value() (Value, error) func Execer.Exec(query string, args []Value) (Result, error) func Queryer.Query(query string, args []Value) (Rows, error) func Rows.Next(dest []Value) error func RowsColumnTypeDatabaseTypeName.Next(dest []Value) error func RowsColumnTypeLength.Next(dest []Value) error func RowsColumnTypeNullable.Next(dest []Value) error func RowsColumnTypePrecisionScale.Next(dest []Value) error func RowsColumnTypeScanType.Next(dest []Value) error func RowsNextResultSet.Next(dest []Value) error func Stmt.Exec(args []Value) (Result, error) func Stmt.Query(args []Value) (Rows, error)
ValueConverter is the interface providing the ConvertValue method. Various implementations of ValueConverter are provided by the driver package to provide consistent implementations of conversions between drivers. The ValueConverters have several uses: - converting from the [Value] types as provided by the sql package into a database table's specific column type and making sure it fits, such as making sure a particular int64 fits in a table's uint16 column. - converting a value as given from the database into one of the driver [Value] types. - by the [database/sql] package, for converting from a driver's [Value] type to a user's type in a scan. ConvertValue converts a value to a driver Value. NotNull Null func ColumnConverter.ColumnConverter(idx int) ValueConverter
Valuer is the interface providing the Value method. Errors returned by the [Value] method are wrapped by the database/sql package. This allows callers to use [errors.Is] for precise error handling after operations like [database/sql.Query], [database/sql.Exec], or [database/sql.QueryRow]. Types implementing Valuer interface are able to convert themselves to a driver [Value]. Value returns a driver Value. Value must not panic. database/sql.Null[...] database/sql.NullBool database/sql.NullByte database/sql.NullFloat64 database/sql.NullInt16 database/sql.NullInt32 database/sql.NullInt64 database/sql.NullString database/sql.NullTime
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IsScanValue is equivalent to [IsValue]. It exists for compatibility.
IsValue reports whether v is a valid [Value] parameter type.
Package-Level Variables (total 8)
Bool is a [ValueConverter] that converts input values to bool. The conversion rules are: - booleans are returned unchanged - for integer types, 1 is true 0 is false, other integers are an error - for strings and []byte, same rules as [strconv.ParseBool] - all other types are an error
DefaultParameterConverter is the default implementation of [ValueConverter] that's used when a [Stmt] doesn't implement [ColumnConverter]. DefaultParameterConverter returns its argument directly if IsValue(arg). Otherwise, if the argument implements [Valuer], its Value method is used to return a [Value]. As a fallback, the provided argument's underlying type is used to convert it to a [Value]: underlying integer types are converted to int64, floats to float64, bool, string, and []byte to themselves. If the argument is a nil pointer, defaultConverter.ConvertValue returns a nil [Value]. If the argument is a non-nil pointer, it is dereferenced and defaultConverter.ConvertValue is called recursively. Other types are an error.
ErrBadConn should be returned by a driver to signal to the [database/sql] package that a driver.[Conn] is in a bad state (such as the server having earlier closed the connection) and the [database/sql] package should retry on a new connection. To prevent duplicate operations, ErrBadConn should NOT be returned if there's a possibility that the database server might have performed the operation. Even if the server sends back an error, you shouldn't return ErrBadConn. Errors will be checked using [errors.Is]. An error may wrap ErrBadConn or implement the Is(error) bool method.
ErrRemoveArgument may be returned from [NamedValueChecker] to instruct the [database/sql] package to not pass the argument to the driver query interface. Return when accepting query specific options or structures that aren't SQL query arguments.
ErrSkip may be returned by some optional interfaces' methods to indicate at runtime that the fast path is unavailable and the sql package should continue as if the optional interface was not implemented. ErrSkip is only supported where explicitly documented.
Int32 is a [ValueConverter] that converts input values to int64, respecting the limits of an int32 value.
ResultNoRows is a pre-defined [Result] for drivers to return when a DDL command (such as a CREATE TABLE) succeeds. It returns an error for both LastInsertId and [RowsAffected].
String is a [ValueConverter] that converts its input to a string. If the value is already a string or []byte, it's unchanged. If the value is of another type, conversion to string is done with fmt.Sprintf("%v", v).