implement driver.Pinger interface #737
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This PR implements the driver.Pinger interface. I had some trouble in an internal project because I relayed on database/sql's Ping Method to check the DB connection. Unfortunately this interface is currently not implemented (nor documented -> resulting in a inaccurate default behaviour) by lib/pq and I lost quite a bit of time finding out why.
Credits to @itsjamie who created the original PR #675 (code is mostly copy/paste) except for the tests (anyway idea for the test also came from @itsjamie).
I hope to get some attention with this PR so this (or PR #675) can be merged to master.