interface {} is string, not []uint8 when scanning PostGIS Point from Postgres using pgx

Question

I have a database with a buildings table which contains a coordinate column of type GEOMETRY(POINT, 4326). With the hope to read the coordinates, I wrote the following code:

    rows, err := db.pool.Query(context.Background(), `select "uuid", "coordinate" from "building"`)
    defer rows.Close()

    for rows.Next() {
        var uuid pgtype.UUID
        var coordinate postgis.Point
        err := rows.Scan(&uuid, &coordinate)
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }
        log.Println("~~~", coordinate.X, coordinate.Y)
    }

Then, I am receiving the following error:

2020/08/22 18:32:32 [Recovery] 2020/08/22 - 18:32:32 panic recovered:
POST /get-state HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:3000
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 0
Postman-Token: 4e6f4dc7-9dc4-4cd4-a328-8da2bc86d43d
User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.26.3


interface conversion: interface {} is string, not []uint8
/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.6/libexec/src/runtime/iface.go:260 (0x100bd11)
    panicdottypeE: panic(&TypeAssertionError{iface, have, want, ""})
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/cridenour/[email protected]/decode.go:21 (0x10fda31)
    decode: ewkb, err := hex.DecodeString(string(value.([]byte)))
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/cridenour/[email protected]/point.go:48 (0x10fde58)
    (*Point).Scan: reader, err := decode(value)
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/jackc/[email protected]/pgtype.go:590 (0x120ff39)
    scanPlanSQLScanner.Scan: return scanner.Scan(string(src))
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/jackc/pgx/[email protected]/rows.go:220 (0x1627b2c)
    (*connRows).Scan: err := rows.scanPlans[i].Scan(ci, fieldDescriptions[i].DataTypeOID, fieldDescriptions[i].Format, values[i], dst)
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/jackc/pgx/[email protected]/pgxpool/rows.go:70 (0x1634cd4)
    (*poolRows).Scan: err := rows.r.Scan(dest...)
/Users/virtumonde/Desktop/dev/terminus/terminus-server/db.go:49 (0x16388f3)
    Database.GetPlayers: err := rows.Scan(&uuid, &coordinate)
/Users/virtumonde/Desktop/dev/terminus/terminus-server/main.go:116 (0x163b26b)
    main.func4: players, err := db.GetPlayers()
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:161 (0x15a0eba)
    (*Context).Next: c.handlers[c.index](c)
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/recovery.go:83 (0x15b45bf)
    RecoveryWithWriter.func1: c.Next()
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:161 (0x15a0eba)
    (*Context).Next: c.handlers[c.index](c)
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/logger.go:241 (0x15b36f0)
    LoggerWithConfig.func1: c.Next()
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:161 (0x15a0eba)
    (*Context).Next: c.handlers[c.index](c)
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/gin.go:409 (0x15aac95)
    (*Engine).handleHTTPRequest: c.Next()
/Users/virtumonde/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/gin.go:367 (0x15aa3ac)
    (*Engine).ServeHTTP: engine.handleHTTPRequest(c)
/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.6/libexec/src/net/http/server.go:2836 (0x13a2692)
    serverHandler.ServeHTTP: handler.ServeHTTP(rw, req)
/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.6/libexec/src/net/http/server.go:1924 (0x139dffb)
    (*conn).serve: serverHandler{c.server}.ServeHTTP(w, w.req)
/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.6/libexec/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1373 (0x10640c0)
    goexit: BYTE    $0x90   // NOP

Thank you in advance. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Answer 1

import ("github.com/paulmach/orb/encoding/wkb")
err := rows.Scan(&uuid, wkb.Scanner(&coordinate))