Coerce strings when reading attributes.

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/column.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/column.rb
index f2fbd5a8f2..187eefb9e4 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/column.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/column.rb
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
         end
       end
 
-      # Casts value (which is a String) to an appropriate instance.
+      # Casts value to an appropriate instance.
       def type_cast(value)
         return nil if value.nil?
         return coder.load(value) if encoded?
@@ -95,7 +95,13 @@ module ActiveRecord
         klass = self.class
 
         case type
-        when :string, :text        then value
+        when :string, :text
+          case value
+          when TrueClass; "1"
+          when FalseClass; "0"
+          else
+            value.to_s
+          end
         when :integer              then klass.value_to_integer(value)
         when :float                then value.to_f
         when :decimal              then klass.value_to_decimal(value)
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/oid.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/oid.rb
index 6f9b60b6c4..e7df073627 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/oid.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/oid.rb
@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ module ActiveRecord
           end
         end
 
+        class Text < Type
+          def type_cast(value)
+            return if value.nil?
+
+            value.to_s
+          end
+        end
+
         class Bit < Type
           def type_cast(value)
             if String === value
@@ -329,7 +337,7 @@ This is not reliable and will be removed in the future.
         alias_type    'oid',  'int2'
 
         register_type 'numeric', OID::Decimal.new
-        register_type 'text', OID::Identity.new
+        register_type 'text', OID::Text.new
         alias_type 'varchar', 'text'
         alias_type 'char', 'text'
         alias_type 'bpchar', 'text'
@@ -355,13 +363,13 @@ This is not reliable and will be removed in the future.
         register_type 'date', OID::Date.new
         register_type 'time', OID::Time.new
 
-        register_type 'path', OID::Identity.new
+        register_type 'path', OID::Text.new
         register_type 'point', OID::Point.new
-        register_type 'polygon', OID::Identity.new
-        register_type 'circle', OID::Identity.new
+        register_type 'polygon', OID::Text.new
+        register_type 'circle', OID::Text.new
         register_type 'hstore', OID::Hstore.new
         register_type 'json', OID::Json.new
-        register_type 'ltree', OID::Identity.new
+        register_type 'ltree', OID::Text.new
 
         register_type 'cidr', OID::Cidr.new
         alias_type 'inet', 'cidr'