Golang Postgresql Array - postgresql

Question

If I have a table that returns something like:
id: 1
names: {Jim, Bob, Sam}
names is a varchar array.
How do I scan that back into a []string in Go?
I'm using lib/pg
Right now I have something like
rows, err := models.Db.Query("SELECT pKey, names FROM foo")
for rows.Next() {
var pKey int
var names []string
err = rows.Scan(&pKey, &names)
}
I keep getting:
panic: sql: Scan error on column index 1: unsupported Scan, storing driver.Value type []uint8 into type *[]string
It looks like I need to use StringArray
https://godoc.org/github.com/lib/pq#StringArray
But, I think I'm too new to Go to understand exactly how to use:
func (a *StringArray) Scan(src interface{})

Answer 1

You are right, you can use StringArray but you don't need to call the
func (a *StringArray) Scan(src interface{})
method yourself, this will be called automatically by rows.Scan when you pass it anything that implements the Scanner interface.
So what you need to do is to convert your []string to *StringArray and pass that to rows.Scan, like so:
rows, err := models.Db.Query("SELECT pKey, names FROM foo")
for rows.Next() {
var pKey int
var names []string
err = rows.Scan(&pKey, (*pq.StringArray)(&names))
}

Answer 2

Long Story Short, use like this to convert pgSQL array to GO array, here 5th column is coming as a array :
var _temp3 []string
for rows.Next() {
// ScanRows scan a row into temp_tbl
err := rows.Scan(&_temp, &_temp0, &_temp1, &_temp2, pq.Array(&_temp3))
In detail :
To insert a row that contains an array value, use the pq.Array function like this:
// "ins" is the SQL insert statement
ins := "INSERT INTO posts (title, tags) VALUES ($1, $2)"
// "tags" is the list of tags, as a string slice
tags := []string{"go", "goroutines", "queues"}
// the pq.Array function is the secret sauce
_, err = db.Exec(ins, "Job Queues in Go", pq.Array(tags))
To read a Postgres array value into a Go slice, use:
func getTags(db *sql.DB, title string) (tags []string) {
// the select query, returning 1 column of array type
sel := "SELECT tags FROM posts WHERE title=$1"
// wrap the output parameter in pq.Array for receiving into it
if err := db.QueryRow(sel, title).Scan(pq.Array(&tags)); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
return
}
Note: that in lib/pq, only slices of certain Go types may be passed to pq.Array().
Another example in which varchar array in pgSQL in generated at runtime in 5th column, like :
--> predefined_allow false admin iam.create {secrets,configMap}
I converted this as,
Q := "SELECT ar.policy_name, ar.allow, ar.role_name, pro.operation_name, ARRAY_AGG(pro.resource_id) as resources FROM iam.authorization_rules ar LEFT JOIN iam.policy_rules_by_operation pro ON pro.id = ar.operation_id GROUP BY ar.policy_name, ar.allow, ar.role_name, pro.operation_name;"
tx := g.db.Raw(Q)
rows, _ := tx.Rows()
defer rows.Close()
var _temp string
var _temp0 bool
var _temp1 string
var _temp2 string
var _temp3 []string
for rows.Next() {
// ScanRows scan a row into temp_tbl
err := rows.Scan(&_temp, &_temp0, &_temp1, &_temp2, pq.Array(&_temp3))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
fmt.Println("Query Executed...........\n", _temp, _temp0, _temp1, _temp2, _temp3)
}
Output :
Query Executed...........
predefined_allow false admin iam.create [secrets configMap]