This topic provides instructions for installing, running, and modifying the Go Snowflake Driver. The driver supports Go's database/sql package.

The following software packages are required to use the Go Snowflake Driver.

The driver requires the Go language 1.10 or higher. The supported operating systems are Linux, Mac OS, and Windows, but you may run the driver on other platforms if the Go language works correctly on those platforms.

Get Gosnowflake source code and dep (dependency managment tool), if not installed, and ensure the dependent libraries are installed.

go get -u github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake
go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake/
dep ensure

Unless you implement your own glog and would like to plug in that glog to dump messages generated from the Gosnowflake driver, we strongly recommend using snowflake's implementation of glog.

To use snowflake's glog, add the following block to your Gopkg.toml

[[override]]
name = "github.com/golang/glog"
source = "https://github.com/snowflakedb/glog.git"
revision = "f5055e6f21ce71153a199e6460664045b3af8e50"

Run dep ensure to download the snowflake's glog

For detailed documentation and basic usage examples, please see the documentation at godoc.org.

Snowflake provides a set of sample programs to test with. Set the environment variable $GOPATH to the top directory of your workspace, e.g., ~/go and make certain to include $GOPATH/bin in the environment variable $PATH. Run the make command to build all sample programs.

make install

In the following example, the program select1.go is built and installed in $GOPATH/bin and can be run from the command line:

SNOWFLAKE_TEST_ACCOUNT=<your_account> \
SNOWFLAKE_TEST_USER=<your_user> \
SNOWFLAKE_TEST_PASSWORD=<your_password> \
select1
Congrats! You have successfully run SELECT 1 with Snowflake DB!

The developer notes are hosted with the source code on GitHub.

Set the Snowflake connection info in parameters.json:

{
    "testconnection": {
        "SNOWFLAKE_TEST_USER":      "<your_user>",
        "SNOWFLAKE_TEST_PASSWORD":  "<your_password>",
        "SNOWFLAKE_TEST_ACCOUNT":   "<your_account>",
        "SNOWFLAKE_TEST_WAREHOUSE": "<your_warehouse>",
        "SNOWFLAKE_TEST_DATABASE":  "<your_database>",
        "SNOWFLAKE_TEST_SCHEMA":    "<your_schema>",
        "SNOWFLAKE_TEST_ROLE":      "<your_role>"
    }
}

Install jq so that the parameters can get parsed correctly, and run make test in your Go development environment:

make test

You may use your preferred editor to edit the driver code. Make certain to run make fmt lint before submitting any pull request to Snowflake. This command formats your source code according to the standard Go style and detects any coding style issues.

For official support, contact Snowflake support at: https://support.snowflake.net/