Does a pure Go Postgres driver work with Cloud SQL on GAE Standard?

[dcco...@gmail.com]

Hi,

According to Cloud SQL documentation, Postgres is not supported on GAE Standard. Is that because of the lack of Postgres database connection support, or is it because of the lack of native extensions?

If it's the former, would a pure Go driver like https://github.com/lib/pq work on Standard?

[pj]

In order to connect to an external service such as a Postgres server, you need to use urlfetch or socketAPI.

To use urlfetch, your postgres server will need a HTTP interface.

socketAPI is possible: https://github.com/pjebs/GAE-Toolkit-Go/tree/master/sql

The easiest way is to not use GAE Standard. You can use GAE flexible instead.

[dcco...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, May 24, 2017, pj wrote:

In order to connect to an external service such as a Postgres server, you need to use urlfetch or socketAPI.

To use urlfetch, your postgres server will need a HTTP interface.

socketAPI is possible: https://github.com/pjebs/GAE-Toolkit-Go/tree/master/sql

From your link:

This package is an experimental package designed to allow Google App Engine (Standard Environment) to use an non-cloudSQL database hosted elsewhere.

 My question was specifically about connecting GAE Go Standard to Cloud SQL Postgesql.