Storing slice of string pointers

[oharlem]

Hi,

Is this possible to work with

type Post struct {
    ...
    AttachedImageIDs   []*string `db:"attached_image_ids"`
   ...
}

( underlying type is varchar(36)[] ) ?

My attempts lead to the following error so far:

panic: Cannot encode []*string into oid 1015 - []*string must implement Encoder or be converted to a string

Thank you!

[jackc]

[]string is supported, but []*string is not. strings are already essentially pointers. Is there some reason not to just use []string?

[oharlem]

@jackc
Just inherited a codebase with lots of []*string (hello to AWS SDK). No reason beyond that. OK, no problem, looks like some cleanup on my side ahead.

Thank you!