From 161ec8db6d2b5cc2cf5c650fbd14a7f3d542cacd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hari Bhaskaran <hbhaskaran@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:09:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Support writing to postgres 'text' values from both strings
 as well as []byte. If the input is already []byte, this will avoid having the
 caller convert to string and then back to []byte. Potentially saves some
 allocs.

---
 values.go | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/values.go b/values.go
index 8e670187..0641d33f 100644
--- a/values.go
+++ b/values.go
@@ -986,14 +986,17 @@ func decodeText(vr *ValueReader) string {
 }
 
 func encodeText(w *WriteBuf, value interface{}) error {
-	s, ok := value.(string)
-	if !ok {
+	switch t := value.(type) {
+	case string:
+		w.WriteInt32(int32(len(t)))
+		w.WriteBytes([]byte(t))
+	case []byte:
+		w.WriteInt32(int32(len(t)))
+		w.WriteBytes(t)
+	default:
 		return fmt.Errorf("Expected string, received %T", value)
 	}
 
-	w.WriteInt32(int32(len(s)))
-	w.WriteBytes([]byte(s))
-
 	return nil
 }