initial v0.8 pre-release

tools/types/types.go

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+// Package types implements some commonly used db serializable types
+// like datetime, json, etc.
+package types
+
+// Pointer is a generic helper that returns val as *T.
+func Pointer[T any](val T) *T {
+	return &val
+}