From 72e580c566d783cc0c42bacb183c4abb5ab85a87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: henryjcee <henry.course@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 17:55:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Partially revert the change made in
 https://github.com/go-gorm/gorm/pull/6311 that appears to have broken this
 for us and at least one other person.

---
 schema/field.go | 3 ++-
 tests/go.mod    | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/schema/field.go b/schema/field.go
index a16c98ab..bdc0b761 100644
--- a/schema/field.go
+++ b/schema/field.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/jinzhu/now"
+
 	"gorm.io/gorm/clause"
 	"gorm.io/gorm/utils"
 )
@@ -922,7 +923,7 @@ func (field *Field) setupValuerAndSetter() {
 					if !reflectV.IsValid() {
 						field.ReflectValueOf(ctx, value).Set(reflect.New(field.FieldType).Elem())
 					} else if reflectV.Kind() == reflect.Ptr && reflectV.IsNil() {
-						return
+						field.ReflectValueOf(ctx, value).Set(reflect.New(field.FieldType).Elem())
 					} else if reflectV.Type().AssignableTo(field.FieldType) {
 						field.ReflectValueOf(ctx, value).Set(reflectV)
 					} else if reflectV.Kind() == reflect.Ptr {
diff --git a/tests/go.mod b/tests/go.mod
index 44535b03..db1d067c 100644
--- a/tests/go.mod
+++ b/tests/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 module gorm.io/gorm/tests
 
-go 1.18
+go 1.21
+
+toolchain go1.23.2
 
 require (
 	github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0