From a7e821c99caa69a50924ed198b0f954b27077ac0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Christensen <jack@jackchristensen.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 14:16:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Improved example on readme

---
 README.md | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8e09948d..519e7691 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,17 +8,33 @@ pgx is a pure Go driver and toolkit for PostgreSQL. It is usable through databas
 ## Example Usage
 
 ```go
-conn, err := pgx.Connect(context.Background(), os.Getenv("DATABASE_URL"))
-if err != nil {
-    fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Unable to connection to database: %v\n", err)
-    os.Exit(1)
-}
+package main
 
-var name string
-var weight int64
-err := conn.QueryRow(context.Background(), "select name, weight from widgets where id=$1", 42).Scan(&name, &weight)
-if err != nil {
-    return err
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v4"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	conn, err := pgx.Connect(context.Background(), os.Getenv("DATABASE_URL"))
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Unable to connection to database: %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	defer conn.Close(context.Background())
+
+	var name string
+	var weight int64
+	err = conn.QueryRow(context.Background(), "select name, weight from widgets where id=$1", 42).Scan(&name, &weight)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "QueryRow failed: %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	fmt.Println(name, weight)
 }
 ```