I am new to golang and currently trying to build a multi-tenant application. In my application each tenants have their own database. My requirement is that I need to switch database connection per tenant request, how can this be accomplished in golang. I prefer postgresql for this project.
I can have a map of database connection to tenant, but not sure if this is a good practice.
Your help and suggestion is highly appreciated
I've handled a similar kind of requirement in Rails. Probably you can use the same approach in go-lang also.
I will have one master DB, which will hold just the tenant information. Like tenant name and db_name.
And I've got a rack middleware which will switch DB based on a subdomain(I'm using the subdomain to identify the tenant).
For example, Your master DB can have table tenants and an example record might probably look like this:
{
id: 1,
name: 'XYZ',
db_name: 'xyz'
}
and when your application receives a request with subdomain xyz, Your middleware should switch to xyz DB.
