从Go连接Oracle服务器上的数据库,而无需任何客户端

I checked out the go connectors available: go-oci8 and goracle, they need oracle client installed on the go side, is there any way to connect to oracle without the need of these clients?My go version is 1.7, I came across go-goracle/goracle but it requires minimum go 1.9 I am getting this error:

    go get gopkg.in/goracle.v2
    # gopkg.in/goracle.v2
    .go/src/gopkg.in/goracle.v2/orahlp.go:271: undefined: driver.Pinger

Please can anyone suggest anything which works with go version 1.7 without the client installed. Regards, Sheetal