Migrate Go drivers to adbc-drivers contrib org (bigquery, databricks, snowflake)

[amoeba]

As announced on the mailing list in Nov 2025, active development of some of the drivers in this repo has moved to a new contrib-like organization: github.com/adbc-drivers. This includes three of the Go-based drivers in this repo:

• go/adbc/driver/bigquery: https://github.com/adbc-drivers/bigquery
• go/adbc/driver/databricks: https://github.com/adbc-drivers/databricks
• go/adbc/driver/snowflake: https://github.com/adbc-drivers/snowflake

So far, this move has involved migrating code, backporting changes here, and moving issues and PRs. To reduce confusion and to avoid the problems that come with maintaining two codebases, we can remove the code for the drivers from this repo and direct users to the new repos.

I think we can do this as part of the ADBC 24 release and I'll file PRs for each removal.

[frbvianna]

Are we still able to use the Go Snowflake driver in the old way after migrating to the adbc-drivers/snowflake repo?
e.g.

	drv := snowflake.NewDriver(memory.NewGoAllocator())

	db, err := drv.NewDatabase(map[string]string{
		snowflake.OptionAuthType: snowflake.OptionValueAuthSnowflake
		// ... other options
	})
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

I'm asking this because adbc-quickstarts/go/snowflake instructs to install the driver using a new tool (dbc), then provides a different adbc.Database initialization in the main.go file, but I see that the snowflake.Driver is still present in the new repo. Do we still need to install using dbc if we go this way?

[amoeba]

Hi @frbvianna, yes you will still be able to use the driver that way. You'll only need to update your import to github.com/adbc-drivers/snowflake/go but otherwise your code can stay the same.