RowToStructByPos supports embedded structs

https://github.com/jackc/pgx/issues/1273#issuecomment-1236966785

rows.go

@@ -511,25 +511,33 @@ func (rs *positionalStructRowScanner) ScanRow(rows Rows) error {
 	}
 
 	dstElemValue := dstValue.Elem()
-	dstElemType := dstElemValue.Type()
+	scanTargets := rs.appendScanTargets(dstElemValue, nil)
 
-	exportedFields := make([]int, 0, dstElemType.NumField())
+	if len(rows.RawValues()) > len(scanTargets) {
-	for i := 0; i < dstElemType.NumField(); i++ {
+		return fmt.Errorf("got %d values, but dst struct has only %d fields", len(rows.RawValues()), len(scanTargets))
-		sf := dstElemType.Field(i)
-		if sf.PkgPath == "" {
-			exportedFields = append(exportedFields, i)
-		}
-	}
-
-	rowFieldCount := len(rows.RawValues())
-	if rowFieldCount > len(exportedFields) {
-		return fmt.Errorf("got %d values, but dst struct has only %d fields", rowFieldCount, len(exportedFields))
-	}
-
-	scanTargets := make([]any, rowFieldCount)
-	for i := 0; i < rowFieldCount; i++ {
-		scanTargets[i] = dstElemValue.Field(exportedFields[i]).Addr().Interface()
 	}
 
 	return rows.Scan(scanTargets...)
 }
+
+func (rs *positionalStructRowScanner) appendScanTargets(dstElemValue reflect.Value, scanTargets []any) []any {
+	dstElemType := dstElemValue.Type()
+
+	if scanTargets == nil {
+		scanTargets = make([]any, 0, dstElemType.NumField())
+	}
+
+	for i := 0; i < dstElemType.NumField(); i++ {
+		sf := dstElemType.Field(i)
+		if sf.PkgPath == "" {
+			// Handle anoymous struct embedding, but do not try to handle embedded pointers.
+			if sf.Anonymous && sf.Type.Kind() == reflect.Struct {
+				scanTargets = append(scanTargets, rs.appendScanTargets(dstElemValue.Field(i), scanTargets)...)
+			} else {
+				scanTargets = append(scanTargets, dstElemValue.Field(i).Addr().Interface())
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return scanTargets
+}

rows_test.go

@@ -329,6 +329,50 @@ func TestRowToStructByPos(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 }
 
+func TestRowToStructByPosEmbeddedStruct(t *testing.T) {
+	type Name struct {
+		First string
+		Last  string
+	}
+
+	type person struct {
+		Name
+		Age int32
+	}
+
+	defaultConnTestRunner.RunTest(context.Background(), t, func(ctx context.Context, t testing.TB, conn *pgx.Conn) {
+		rows, _ := conn.Query(ctx, `select 'John' as first_name, 'Smith' as last_name, n as age from generate_series(0, 9) n`)
+		slice, err := pgx.CollectRows(rows, pgx.RowToStructByPos[person])
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		assert.Len(t, slice, 10)
+		for i := range slice {
+			assert.Equal(t, "John", slice[i].Name.First)
+			assert.Equal(t, "Smith", slice[i].Name.Last)
+			assert.EqualValues(t, i, slice[i].Age)
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+// Pointer to struct is not supported. But check that we don't panic.
+func TestRowToStructByPosEmbeddedPointerToStruct(t *testing.T) {
+	type Name struct {
+		First string
+		Last  string
+	}
+
+	type person struct {
+		*Name
+		Age int32
+	}
+
+	defaultConnTestRunner.RunTest(context.Background(), t, func(ctx context.Context, t testing.TB, conn *pgx.Conn) {
+		rows, _ := conn.Query(ctx, `select 'John' as first_name, 'Smith' as last_name, n as age from generate_series(0, 9) n`)
+		_, err := pgx.CollectRows(rows, pgx.RowToStructByPos[person])
+		require.EqualError(t, err, "got 3 values, but dst struct has only 2 fields")
+	})
+}
+
 func ExampleRowToStructByPos() {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 15*time.Second)
 	defer cancel()