Tweaks.

driver/driver.go

@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ func (r *rows) Next(dest []driver.Value) error {
 		case sqlite3.BLOB:
 			dest[i] = r.Stmt.ColumnRawBlob(i)
 		case sqlite3.TEXT:
-			dest[i] = stringOrTime(r.Stmt.ColumnRawText(i))
+			dest[i] = stringOrTime(r.Stmt.ColumnText(i))
 		case sqlite3.NULL:
 			dest[i] = nil
 		default:

driver/time.go

@@ -9,23 +9,23 @@ import (
 // if it roundtrips back to the same string.
 // This way times can be persisted to, and recovered from, the database,
 // but if a string is needed, [database/sql] will recover the same string.
-func stringOrTime(text []byte) driver.Value {
+func stringOrTime(text string) driver.Value {
 	// Weed out (some) values that can't possibly be
 	// [time.RFC3339Nano] timestamps.
 	if len(text) < len("2006-01-02T15:04:05Z") {
-		return string(text)
+		return text
 	}
 	if len(text) > len(time.RFC3339Nano) {
-		return string(text)
+		return text
 	}
 	if text[4] != '-' || text[10] != 'T' || text[16] != ':' {
-		return string(text)
+		return text
 	}
 
 	// Slow path.
-	date, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339Nano, string(text))
-	if err == nil && date.Format(time.RFC3339Nano) == string(text) {
+	date, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339Nano, text)
+	if err == nil && date.Format(time.RFC3339Nano) == text {
 		return date
 	}
-	return string(text)
+	return text
 }

driver/time_test.go

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ func Fuzz_stringOrTime_1(f *testing.F) {
 	f.Add("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.")
 
 	f.Fuzz(func(t *testing.T, str string) {
-		value := stringOrTime([]byte(str))
+		value := stringOrTime(str)
 
 		switch v := value.(type) {
 		case time.Time:
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ func Fuzz_stringOrTime_2(f *testing.F) {
 	f.Add(int64(-763421161058), int64(222_222_222)) // twosday, year 22222BC
 
 	checkTime := func(t testing.TB, date time.Time) {
-		value := stringOrTime([]byte(date.Format(time.RFC3339Nano)))
+		value := stringOrTime(date.Format(time.RFC3339Nano))
 
 		switch v := value.(type) {
 		case time.Time: