So says the readme: https://github.com/lib/pq#status

I wonder why, though?

If you search the issues, you're going to find its maintainer saying he himself was using pgx now, as it was more capable.

Thanks, I missed that. It is a shame, because although pgx is more capable, it doesn't seem to work with Go's database/sql system, which it harder to support multiple database backends (e.g. Sqlite for testing).