Unfortunately the mgo.v2 driver does not provide API calls to specify cursor.min(). But there is a solution. The mgo.Database type provides a Database.Run() method to run any MongoDB commands. The available commands and their documentation can be found here: Database commands Starting with MongoDB 3.2, a new find command is available which can be used … Read more
.. is there anything obvious that would suggest why my queriers are averaging 500-650ms? Yes, there is. You are calling mgo.Dial() before executing each query. mgo.Dial() has to connect to the MongoDB server every time, which you close right after the query. The connection may very likely take hundreds of milliseconds to estabilish, including authentication, … Read more
I suggest not using a global session like that. Instead, you can create a type that is responsible for all the database interaction. For example: type DataStore struct { session *mgo.Session } func (ds *DataStore) ucol() *mgo.Collection { … } func (ds *DataStore) UserExist(user string) bool { … } There are many benefits to that … Read more