Implementing Scanner.Scan for int64 returns []uint8 (byte) instead of int64

[al3rez]

I implemented Scanner for a struct called PrepTime in which embeds time.Duration and type of the related column is bigint (also tested with integer) but the returning src is []uint8 instead of int64 and I must first convert the []uint8 (byte) to string then convert it to int64 using strconv.ParseInt(string(src.([]uint8), 10, 64)

Is this behavior done on purpose?

[vmihailenco]

Postgres returns []byte - that is what you receive in Scanner.Scan.