go - Does db.Close() need to be called?

Question

So far the hardest part of Go has been understanding how to organize code. It seems incredibly simple on it's face but every time I've tried to do anything I run into circular imports or things like "exported func Start returns unexported type models.dbStore, which can be annoying to use".

Using the following code how do I call db.Close() or am I really not understanding how I'm supposed to provide the database to my models. Here's what I've got:

App.go

package app

import (
    "database/sql"

    // Comment
    _ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
)

var (
    // DB The database connection
    db *sql.DB
)

// Setup Sets up the many many app settings
func Setup() {
    d, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", "./foo.db")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // TODO: How does the DB get closed?
    // defer db.Close()
    db = d
}

// GetDB Returns a reference to the database
func GetDB() *sql.DB {
    return db
}

Users.go

package models

import (
    "github.com/proj/org/app"
)

// User struct
type User struct {
    ID int
}

// CreateUser Creates a user
func (u *User) CreateUser() (int64, error) {

    // For the sake of brevity just make sure you can
    // "connect" to the database
    if err := app.GetDB().Ping(); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    return 1234, nil
}

main.go

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"

    _ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
    "github.com/proj/org/app"
    "github.com/proj/org/models"
)

func homeHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "You are home")
}

func subscribeHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "Subscribing...")
    u := models.User{}

    u.CreateUser()

}

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Running")

    app.Setup()

    http.HandleFunc("/", homeHandler)
    http.HandleFunc("/subscribe", subscribeHandler)

    err := http.ListenAndServe(":9090", nil)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

I thought about doing a app.Shutdown() but that wouldn't work for my most normal use case which is CTRL-C. It would seem if I don't close the database the DB connections would just grow... Just trying to understand.

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