diff --git a/tests/test_copy.py b/tests/test_copy.py
index b6da4b1b..9026abc5 100755
--- a/tests/test_copy.py
+++ b/tests/test_copy.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class CopyTests(unittest.TestCase):
         curs = self.conn.cursor()
         curs.execute('''
             CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tcopy (
-              id int PRIMARY KEY,
+              id serial PRIMARY KEY,
               data text
             )''')
 
@@ -180,6 +180,39 @@ class CopyTests(unittest.TestCase):
         f.seek(0)
         self.assertEqual(f.readline().rstrip(), about)
 
+    @skip_if_no_iobase
+    def test_copy_expert_textiobase(self):
+        self.conn.set_client_encoding('latin1')
+        self._create_temp_table()  # the above call closed the xn
+
+        if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+            abin = ''.join(map(chr, range(32, 127) + range(160, 256)))
+            abin = abin.decode('latin1')
+            about = abin.replace('\\', '\\\\')
+
+        else:
+            abin = bytes(range(32, 127) + range(160, 256)).decode('latin1')
+            about = abin.replace('\\', '\\\\')
+
+        import io
+        f = io.StringIO()
+        f.write(about)
+        f.seek(0)
+
+        curs = self.conn.cursor()
+        psycopg2.extensions.register_type(
+            psycopg2.extensions.UNICODE, curs)
+
+        curs.copy_expert('COPY tcopy (data) FROM STDIN', f)
+        curs.execute("select data from tcopy;")
+        self.assertEqual(curs.fetchone()[0], abin)
+
+        f = io.StringIO()
+        curs.copy_expert('COPY tcopy (data) TO STDOUT', f)
+        f.seek(0)
+        self.assertEqual(f.readline().rstrip(), about)
+
+
     def _copy_from(self, curs, nrecs, srec, copykw):
         f = StringIO()
         for i, c in izip(xrange(nrecs), cycle(string.ascii_letters)):