diff --git a/src/sources.lisp b/src/sources.lisp
index d6b19e7..04e23c4 100644
--- a/src/sources.lisp
+++ b/src/sources.lisp
@@ -431,8 +431,8 @@
   "Returns suitably quoted default value for CREATE TABLE command."
   (cond
     ((null default) "NULL")
-    ((string= "NULL" default) default)
-    ((string= "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP" default) default)
+    ((and (stringp default) (string= "NULL" default)) default)
+    ((and (stringp default) (string= "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP" default)) default)
     (t
      ;; apply the transformation function to the default value
      (if using-cast-fn (format-pgsql-default-value
diff --git a/src/sources/mysql/mysql-schema.lisp b/src/sources/mysql/mysql-schema.lisp
index 05a556b..2ad1779 100644
--- a/src/sources/mysql/mysql-schema.lisp
+++ b/src/sources/mysql/mysql-schema.lisp
@@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ order by table_name" dbname only-tables))))
               (cons   (format nil "~:[~;NOT ~]REGEXP '~a'" not (cadr filter)))))
           filter-list))
 
+(defun cleanup-default-value (dtype default)
+  "MySQL catalog query always returns the default value as a string, but in
+   the case of a binary data type we actually want a byte vector."
+  (cond ((string= "binary" dtype)
+         (when default
+           (babel:string-to-octets default)))
+
+        (t default)))
+
 (defun list-all-columns (&key
                            (dbname *my-dbname*)
 			   (table-type :table)
@@ -192,10 +201,10 @@ order by table_name, ordinal_position"
                             excluding   ; do we print the clause?
                             (filter-list-to-where-clause excluding t)))
      do
-       (let ((entry  (assoc table-name schema :test 'equal))
-             (column
-              (make-mysql-column
-               table-name name dtype ctype default nullable extra)))
+       (let* ((entry   (assoc table-name schema :test 'equal))
+              (def-val (cleanup-default-value dtype default))
+              (column  (make-mysql-column
+                        table-name name dtype ctype def-val nullable extra)))
          (if entry
              (push column (cdr entry))
              (push (cons table-name (list column)) schema)))