fix: tagOf is not instanceof

src/Data.Postgres.js

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 import Pg from 'pg'
 import Range from 'postgres-range'
+import { Buffer } from 'buffer'
+
+/** @type {(a: unknown) => boolean} */
+export const isInstanceOfBuffer = a => a instanceof Buffer
 
 export const modifyPgTypes = () => {
   // https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-types/blob/master/lib/textParsers.js

src/Data.Postgres.purs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module Data.Postgres where
 import Prelude
 
 import Control.Alt ((<|>))
-import Control.Monad.Error.Class (liftEither, liftMaybe)
+import Control.Monad.Error.Class (liftEither, liftMaybe, throwError)
 import Control.Monad.Except (ExceptT, runExceptT)
 import Control.Monad.Morph (hoist)
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Class (lift)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import Data.RFC3339String as DateTime.ISO
 import Data.Traversable (traverse)
 import Effect (Effect)
 import Effect.Exception (error)
-import Foreign (ForeignError(..), unsafeToForeign)
+import Foreign (ForeignError(..), tagOf, unsafeFromForeign, unsafeToForeign)
 import Foreign as F
 import JS.BigInt (BigInt)
 import JS.BigInt as BigInt
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ derive newtype instance ReadForeign a => ReadForeign (JSON a)
 -- | for some types to unmarshal as strings rather than JS values.
 foreign import modifyPgTypes :: Effect Unit
 
+foreign import isInstanceOfBuffer :: F.Foreign -> Boolean
+
 -- | The serialization & deserialization monad.
 type RepT = ExceptT (NonEmptyList ForeignError) Effect
 
@@ -142,7 +144,12 @@ instance ReadForeign a => Deserialize (JSON a) where
 
 -- | `bytea`
 instance Deserialize Buffer where
-  deserialize = (F.unsafeReadTagged "Buffer") <<< Raw.asForeign
+  deserialize =
+    let
+      notBuffer a = pure $ TypeMismatch (tagOf a) "Buffer"
+      readBuffer a = when (not $ isInstanceOfBuffer a) (throwError $ notBuffer a) $> unsafeFromForeign a
+    in
+      readBuffer <<< Raw.asForeign
 
 -- | `int2`, `int4`
 instance Deserialize Int where

src/Pipes.Postgres.purs

@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ stdin q = do
 
     pipe = Pipes.mapM releaseOnEOS >-> fromWritable (O.fromBufferWritable stream)
     err e = do
-       liftAff $ void $ Client.exec "rollback" client
-       liftEffect $ Pool.release pool client
-       throwError e
+      liftAff $ void $ Client.exec "rollback" client
+      liftEffect $ Pool.release pool client
+      throwError e
 
   catchError pipe err