diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index da7950bd..7aa146e5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Current release
 What's new in psycopg 2.8.1
 ---------------------------
 
+- Fixed `RealDictRow.pop()` (:ticket:`#886`).
 - Fixed "there's no async cursor" error polling a connection with no cursor
   (:ticket:`#887`).
 
diff --git a/lib/extras.py b/lib/extras.py
index ad31e8ed..c5294cef 100644
--- a/lib/extras.py
+++ b/lib/extras.py
@@ -290,6 +290,13 @@ class RealDictRow(dict):
     def items(self):
         return ((k, self[k]) for k in self._column_mapping)
 
+    def pop(self, key, *args):
+        found = key in self
+        rv = super(RealDictRow, self).pop(key, *args)
+        if found:
+            self._column_mapping.remove(key)
+        return rv
+
     if PY2:
         iterkeys = keys
         itervalues = values
diff --git a/tests/test_extras_dictcursor.py b/tests/test_extras_dictcursor.py
index 7eee4cce..119110e8 100755
--- a/tests/test_extras_dictcursor.py
+++ b/tests/test_extras_dictcursor.py
@@ -221,6 +221,12 @@ class ExtrasDictCursorTests(_DictCursorBase):
 
 
 class ExtrasDictCursorRealTests(_DictCursorBase):
+    def testRealMeansReal(self):
+        curs = self.conn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.RealDictCursor)
+        curs.execute("SELECT * FROM ExtrasDictCursorTests")
+        row = curs.fetchone()
+        self.assert_(isinstance(row, dict))
+
     def testDictCursorWithPlainCursorRealFetchOne(self):
         self._testWithPlainCursorReal(lambda curs: curs.fetchone())
 
@@ -358,6 +364,19 @@ class ExtrasDictCursorRealTests(_DictCursorBase):
         self.assertEqual(list(r1.itervalues()), list(r.itervalues()))
         self.assertEqual(list(r1.iteritems()), list(r.iteritems()))
 
+    def test_pop(self):
+        curs = self.conn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.RealDictCursor)
+        curs.execute("select 1 as a, 2 as b, 3 as c")
+        r = curs.fetchone()
+        self.assertEqual(r.pop('b'), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(list(r), ['a', 'c'])
+        self.assertEqual(list(r.keys()), ['a', 'c'])
+        self.assertEqual(list(r.values()), [1, 3])
+        self.assertEqual(list(r.items()), [('a', 1), ('c', 3)])
+
+        self.assertEqual(r.pop('b', None), None)
+        self.assertRaises(KeyError, r.pop, 'b')
+
 
 class NamedTupleCursorTest(ConnectingTestCase):
     def setUp(self):