Hi Rob,
About my comment at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/revel-framework/QI5Wyuisf1Q

Play framework have a different folder to define the database schema and add some initial data (ie: conf/evolutions/default/1.sql) IMHO this is a good and clear practice for a MVC approach, because every layer will be more clean, and the framework approach will be easy to understand and begin with it, maybe init.go could implement a logic method to do these tasks only if something was changed at the code that initialize the database schema, I believe that it can be made on a agnostic-db way...