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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ A MySQL-Driver for Go's [database/sql](https://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/) pac
 
 ## Requirements
   * Go 1.10 or higher. We aim to support the 3 latest versions of Go.
-  * MySQL (4.1+), MariaDB, Percona Server, Google CloudSQL or Sphinx (2.2.3+)
+  * MySQL (4.1+), MariaDB, Percona Server, or Sphinx (2.2.3+)
 
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@@ -407,11 +407,6 @@ TCP on a remote host, e.g. Amazon RDS:
 id:password@tcp(your-amazonaws-uri.com:3306)/dbname
 ```
 
-Google Cloud SQL on App Engine:
-```
-user:password@unix(/cloudsql/project-id:region-name:instance-name)/dbname
-```
-
 TCP using default port (3306) on localhost:
 ```
 user:password@tcp/dbname?charset=utf8mb4,utf8&sys_var=esc%40ped