alt Hacker NewsUnfortunately for people SELECTing UUIDs out of a DB directly into a uuid struct, the built-in uuid structs don't implement the necessary interface for that, so you'll have to continue using the google package, or a plain string.
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deepsun • yesterday at 8:36 PM
Or just a number (128-bit).
reactordev • yesterday at 8:30 PM
Oooof… well played go team, well played.
The database/sql package gained native support[1] for the uuid.UUID type so it will Just Work even without the methods. This probably should have been mentioned in the release notes and database/sql package docs.
[1] https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.27.0:src/...