- pq: basic postgres driver and ORM (similar to sqlalchemy?)
- sqlx: small extensions to builtin sql; row to struct mapping


code generation from SQL schema:
- https://github.com/xo/xo
- https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler
- kallax

database migrations:
- goose
- https://github.com/mattes/migrate

maybe also:
- https://github.com/oklog/ulid
  like a UUID, but base32 and "sortable" (timestamp + random)