diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/DefaultBinding.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/DefaultBinding.java
index 5991814a91..7542f51cea 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/DefaultBinding.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/DefaultBinding.java
@@ -857,14 +857,11 @@ public class DefaultBinding<T, U> implements Binding<T, U> {
         SQLDialect dialect = ctx.dialect();
         T value = converter.to(ctx.value());
 
-        if (log.isTraceEnabled()) {
-            if (value != null && value.getClass().isArray() && value.getClass() != byte[].class) {
+        if (log.isTraceEnabled())
+            if (value != null && value.getClass().isArray() && value.getClass() != byte[].class)
                 log.trace("Binding variable " + ctx.index(), Arrays.asList((Object[]) value) + " (" + type + ")");
-            }
-            else {
+            else
                 log.trace("Binding variable " + ctx.index(), value + " (" + type + ")");
-            }
-        }
 
         // Setting null onto a prepared statement is subtly different for every
         // SQL dialect. See the following section for details
@@ -2182,6 +2179,9 @@ public class DefaultBinding<T, U> implements Binding<T, U> {
         else if (Record.class.isAssignableFrom(type)) {
             return (T) pgNewRecord(type, null, string);
         }
+        else if (type == Object.class) {
+            return (T) string;
+        }
         else {
             Converter<Object, T> c = (Converter<Object, T>) converter;
             return c.from(pgFromString(c.fromType(), string));
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/util/postgres/PostgresUtils.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/util/postgres/PostgresUtils.java
index d80fce1796..5bd2b5154a 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/util/postgres/PostgresUtils.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/util/postgres/PostgresUtils.java
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
+import org.jooq.Converter;
 import org.jooq.Record;
 import org.jooq.exception.DataTypeException;
 import org.jooq.tools.reflect.Reflect;
@@ -465,7 +466,9 @@ public class PostgresUtils {
         sb.append("(");
 
         String separator = "";
-        for (Object a : r.intoArray()) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < r.size(); i++) {
+            @SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" })
+            Object a = ((Converter) r.field(i).getConverter()).to(r.get(i));
             sb.append(separator);
 
             // [#753] null must not be set as a literal