google app engine golang, driver: bad connection

Question

I have some code that is working on the local GAE server but once I publish it to GAE it throws the error \"driver: bad connection\".

Below code generates a new *sql

Answer 1

I ended up needing to change my dbcloud variable to include the region of the SQL server changing it from:

'projectid:instancename'

To:

'projectid:regionname:instancename'

No idea why I need to do this as it's not in the docs of https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql but is all working now!