count field filled with string at runtime, even though type is number

I’ve got a query defined like this:

/* @name CountByName */ SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users WHERE username = :username;

But at runtime it’s returning [{count:"0"}].

What might I be doing wrong?

[adelsz]

In PG SQL queries count is returned as bigint. PG’s bigint can be bigger than JS’s Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER so it is parsed as string by node-postgres. If you are sure that your counts will fit into int4 then a potential workaround is to typecast the count to int in your query:

SELECT COUNT(*)::int FROM users WHERE username = :username; 

[adelsz]

Ok, If I understood you correctly, casting COUNT(*)::int solved the issue you were having. Closing this issue, let me know that is not the case.