Fix: Scan and encode types with underlying types of arrays

Rather than special case the reported issue with UUID and [16]byte, this
commit allows the system to find the underlying type of any type that is
an array.

fixes #2107

pgtype/pgtype.go

@@ -573,17 +573,24 @@ func TryFindUnderlyingTypeScanPlan(dst any) (plan WrappedScanPlanNextSetter, nex
 			elemValue = dstValue.Elem()
 		}
 		nextDstType := elemKindToPointerTypes[elemValue.Kind()]
-		if nextDstType == nil && elemValue.Kind() == reflect.Slice {
-			if elemValue.Type().Elem().Kind() == reflect.Uint8 {
-				var v *[]byte
-				nextDstType = reflect.TypeOf(v)
+		if nextDstType == nil {
+			if elemValue.Kind() == reflect.Slice {
+				if elemValue.Type().Elem().Kind() == reflect.Uint8 {
+					var v *[]byte
+					nextDstType = reflect.TypeOf(v)
+				}
+			}
+
+			// Get underlying type of any array.
+			// https://github.com/jackc/pgx/issues/2107
+			if elemValue.Kind() == reflect.Array {
+				nextDstType = reflect.PointerTo(reflect.ArrayOf(elemValue.Len(), elemValue.Type().Elem()))
 			}
 		}
 
 		if nextDstType != nil && dstValue.Type() != nextDstType && dstValue.CanConvert(nextDstType) {
 			return &underlyingTypeScanPlan{dstType: dstValue.Type(), nextDstType: nextDstType}, dstValue.Convert(nextDstType).Interface(), true
 		}
-
 	}
 
 	return nil, nil, false
@@ -1423,6 +1430,15 @@ func TryWrapFindUnderlyingTypeEncodePlan(value any) (plan WrappedEncodePlanNextS
 		return &underlyingTypeEncodePlan{nextValueType: byteSliceType}, refValue.Convert(byteSliceType).Interface(), true
 	}
 
+	// Get underlying type of any array.
+	// https://github.com/jackc/pgx/issues/2107
+	if refValue.Kind() == reflect.Array {
+		underlyingArrayType := reflect.ArrayOf(refValue.Len(), refValue.Type().Elem())
+		if refValue.Type() != underlyingArrayType {
+			return &underlyingTypeEncodePlan{nextValueType: underlyingArrayType}, refValue.Convert(underlyingArrayType).Interface(), true
+		}
+	}
+
 	return nil, nil, false
 }
 

pgtype/uuid_test.go

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
+type renamedUUIDByteArray [16]byte
+
 func TestUUIDCodec(t *testing.T) {
 	pgxtest.RunValueRoundTripTests(context.Background(), t, defaultConnTestRunner, nil, "uuid", []pgxtest.ValueRoundTripTest{
 		{
@@ -43,6 +45,16 @@ func TestUUIDCodec(t *testing.T) {
 			new(pgtype.UUID),
 			isExpectedEq(pgtype.UUID{Bytes: [16]byte{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15}, Valid: true}),
 		},
+		{
+			renamedUUIDByteArray{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15},
+			new(pgtype.UUID),
+			isExpectedEq(pgtype.UUID{Bytes: [16]byte{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15}, Valid: true}),
+		},
+		{
+			[]byte{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15},
+			new(renamedUUIDByteArray),
+			isExpectedEq(renamedUUIDByteArray{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15}),
+		},
 		{
 			[]byte{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15},
 			new(pgtype.UUID),