See... that's the thing. It might work. If the driver plays nicely. Or it might not. In fact, you have no way of knowing without reading the source code. The s

See... that's the thing. It might work. If the driver plays nicely. Or it might not. In fact, you have no way of knowing without reading the source code. The sqlite driver used to not work with the postgres one. I don't know why. I never looked into it... but, that this can happen is pretty bad, I'd argue. Packages that invoke code when you import them and require this sort of import: import _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql" Aren't idiomatic. They're hacks, because the database module didn't really consider how it was going to work properly.