pgcolumn knows how to typecast binary columns

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb
index 5b150f2731..d61ca17391 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ module ActiveRecord
         super(name, self.class.extract_value_from_default(default), sql_type, null)
       end
 
+      def type_cast(value)
+        return super unless sql_type == 'bytea'
+
+        PGconn.unescape_bytea(value) if value
+      end
+
       # :stopdoc:
       class << self
         attr_accessor :money_precision