Update client_golang to enable native histograms #474
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Summary
As of client_golang 1.14+ we have support for sparse histograms. This will start to pave the way to allow the exporter not to need bucket configuration per metric anymore.
On top of that, the current behavior is that buckets are still used in the text exposition format, and only when protobuf is negotiated the new native histograms are used, so it should be safe to upgrade right now without changes for older version of prometheus.