Methods defined on T are also available on *T. Thought this technically
changes the interface, because *T will be automatically dereferenced as
needed it shouldn't be a breaking change.
See a8802b16cc593842f5c69b0f7cfb0de11d5cd3a8 for similar change.
Methods defined on T are also available on *T. This change makes Value
consistent with database/sql Value implementations. It also makes Value,
EncodeBinary, and EncodeText more convenient to use because you can
pass T or *T as an argument to a query.
The MarshalJSON change is even more significant because without it
json.Marshal would generate the "%v" format instead of the implemented
MarshalJSON.
Thought this technically changes the interface, because *T will be
automatically dereferenced as needed it shouldn't be a breaking change.
See: https://github.com/jackc/pgx/issues/538 for initial discussion.
They now take ownership of the src argument.
Needed to change Scan to make a copy of []byte arguments as lib/pq apparently
gives Scan a shared memory buffer.
This adds PostgreSQL numeric mapping to and from
github.com/shopspring/decimal.
Makes pgtype.NullAssignTo public as external types need this functionality.
Begin extraction of pgtype testing functionality so it can easily be used by
external types.
