Emulating try-catch in #golang with multi-return statements

gistfile1.go

var hids [][]string
db, err := sql.Open("postgres", "user=myuser dbname=mydb sslmode=disable")
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
    os.Exit(1)
} else {
    defer db.Close()
    rows, err := db.Query(my_query)
    if err != nil {
        log.Println(err)
        os.Exit(0) // Because there is no data to fetch
    } else {
        // rows.Next() handles rows.Close(), no need for deferring
        var _hid, _myid string
        for rows.Next() {
            if err := rows.Scan(&_hid, &_myid); err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
                os.Exit(1)
            }
            hids = append(hids, []string{_hid, _myid})
        }
        fmt.Println(hids)
    }
}