Using .ping() to check connectivity?

[fosini]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41618428/golang-ping-succeed-the-second-time-even-if-database-is-down

Ping, after the first connection, doesn't actually ping the database. It's odd, and wrong, but that's the way it works (until Go 1.8). If there's an existing connection in the connection pool that hasn't timed out, Ping will simply remove it from the pool and return it to you, without actually bothering to check if the database is still there.

Kardianos (who wrote the above linked document, as well as Govendor) fixed this in 1.8, provided the database driver supports it. Until then, however, Ping isn't reliable for determining if the database is still there.

Hello.
Is it ok now to use ping now to check if my connection is still there?

Thanks a lot

[methane]

Yes, see #572.