Fix []byte types incorrectly converted to PostgreSQL array

conn.go

@@ -825,14 +825,18 @@ func (cn *conn) CheckNamedValue(nv *driver.NamedValue) error {
 		return driver.ErrSkip
 	}
 
-	// Ignoring []byte / []uint8.
-	if _, ok := nv.Value.([]uint8); ok {
+	v := reflect.ValueOf(nv.Value)
+	if !v.IsValid() {
 		return driver.ErrSkip
 	}
+	t := v.Type()
+	for t.Kind() == reflect.Ptr {
+		t, v = t.Elem(), v.Elem()
+	}
 
-	v := reflect.ValueOf(nv.Value)
-	if v.Kind() == reflect.Ptr {
-		v = v.Elem()
+	// Ignore []byte and related types: *[]byte, json.RawMessage, etc.
+	if t.Kind() == reflect.Slice && t.Elem().Kind() == reflect.Uint8 {
+		return driver.ErrSkip
 	}
 
 	switch v.Kind() {

conn_test.go

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 package pq
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
 	"database/sql/driver"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
@@ -2166,6 +2168,66 @@ func TestUint64(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestBytea(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		in   any
+		want string
+	}{
+		{[]byte{0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0xff},
+			`[]map[string][]uint8{map[string][]uint8{"b":[]uint8{0x0, 0x1, 0x2, 0xff}}}`},
+		{[]byte(nil),
+			`[]map[string][]uint8{map[string][]uint8{"b":[]uint8(nil)}}`},
+		{json.RawMessage(`{"key":"value"}`),
+			`[]map[string][]uint8{map[string][]uint8{"b":[]uint8{0x7b, 0x22, 0x6b, 0x65, 0x79, 0x22, 0x3a, 0x22, 0x76, 0x61, 0x6c, 0x75, 0x65, 0x22, 0x7d}}}`},
+		{pqtest.Ptr(pqtest.Ptr([]byte{0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0xff})),
+			`[]map[string][]uint8{map[string][]uint8{"b":[]uint8{0x0, 0x1, 0x2, 0xff}}}`},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		tt := tt
+		t.Run("", func(t *testing.T) {
+			db := pqtest.MustDB(t)
+			pqtest.Exec(t, db, `create temp table tbl (b bytea)`)
+			pqtest.Exec(t, db, `insert into tbl values ($1)`, &tt.in)
+			rows := pqtest.Query[[]byte](t, db, `select b from tbl`)
+			if have := fmt.Sprintf("%#v", rows); have != tt.want {
+				t.Fatalf("\nhave: %s\nwant: %s", have, tt.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestJSONRawMessage(t *testing.T) {
+	db := pqtest.MustDB(t)
+
+	pqtest.Exec(t, db, `create temp table tbl (j json)`)
+
+	// Test json.RawMessage (a named []byte type) is correctly stored as JSON,
+	// not converted to a PostgreSQL array. This was a bug in CheckNamedValue
+	// where named byte slice types would hit the reflect.Slice case and get
+	// incorrectly converted to a PostgreSQL array.
+	data := json.RawMessage(`{"key":"value"}`)
+	pqtest.Exec(t, db, `insert into tbl values ($1)`, data)
+
+	rows, err := db.Query("select j from tbl")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+
+	if rows.Next() {
+		var j json.RawMessage
+		err := rows.Scan(&j)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+
+		if !bytes.Equal(j, data) {
+			t.Fatalf("json mismatch\nhave: %s\nwant: %s", j, data)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func TestPreProtocolError(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []struct {
 		name    string

internal/pqtest/pqtest.go

@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ func InvalidCertificate(err error) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
+// Ptr gets a pointer to any value.
+//
+// TODO: replace with new(..) once pq requires Go 1.26.
+func Ptr[T any](t T) *T {
+	return &t
+}
+
 var envOnce sync.Once
 
 func DSN(conninfo string) string {