Allow to change (or disable) the default driver name for registration #1160
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Description
A link variable now allows to change or disable the name of the driver that is automatically registered with
database/sql
.This allows users to give the
postgres
name to anotherdatabase/sql
driver.The implementation is the same as in: https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql driver. See https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql/blob/af8d7931954ec21a96df9610a99c09c2887f2ee7/driver.go#L92
Usage
Change the driver name to
custom
:Disable the automatic driver registration (set
driverName
to an empty string):In the same way, a variable overridable at link time is also provided to override the driver name used in the test suite. This allows to run our test suite on another driver.
driverName
is propagated todriverNameTest
unlessdriverNameTest
is explicitely defined.