Pointer types can be used for dealing with NULL. (https://codereview.appspot.com/5630052)

ikedam 2022-02-16 12:54:17 +09:00
parent c2deee1344
commit 7756871ee9

@ -134,4 +134,12 @@ if name.Valid {
Only [`NullByte`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullByte), [`NullBool`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullBool), [`NullFloat64`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullFloat64), [`NullInt64`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullInt64), [`NullInt32`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullInt32) [`NullInt16`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullInt16), [`NullString`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullString) and [`NullTime`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullTime) are implemented in Only [`NullByte`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullByte), [`NullBool`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullBool), [`NullFloat64`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullFloat64), [`NullInt64`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullInt64), [`NullInt32`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullInt32) [`NullInt16`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullInt16), [`NullString`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullString) and [`NullTime`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#NullTime) are implemented in
`database/sql`. Implementations of database-specific null types are left `database/sql`. Implementations of database-specific null types are left
to the database driver. User types supporting `NULL` can be created by implementing interfaces [`database/sql/driver.Valuer`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/driver/#Valuer) and [`database/sql.Scanner`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#Scanner). to the database driver. User types supporting `NULL` can be created by implementing interfaces [`database/sql/driver.Valuer`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/driver/#Valuer) and [`database/sql.Scanner`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql/#Scanner).
You can also pass pointer types. Be careful for performance issues as it
requires extra memory allocations.
```go
var name *string
err := db.QueryRowContext(ctx, "SELECT name FROM names WHERE id = $1", id).Scan(&name)
```