diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 133c3e6e..08d377cb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ What's new in psycopg 2.4
     missing encodings: EUC_CN, EUC_JIS_2004, ISO885910, ISO885916,
     LATIN10, SHIFT_JIS_2004.
   - Dropped repeated dictionary lookups with unicode query/parameters.
+  - Empty lists correctly roundtrip Python -> PostgreSQL -> Python.
 
 * Bug fixes:
 
diff --git a/tests/types_basic.py b/tests/types_basic.py
index 56be342f..97397794 100755
--- a/tests/types_basic.py
+++ b/tests/types_basic.py
@@ -185,6 +185,9 @@ class TypesBasicTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.failUnlessEqual(s, [])
         s = self.execute("SELECT 1 != ALL(%s)", ([],))
         self.failUnlessEqual(s, True)
+        # but don't break the strings :)
+        s = self.execute("SELECT '{}'::text AS foo")
+        self.failUnlessEqual(s, "{}")
 
     @testutils.skip_from_python(3)
     def testTypeRoundtripBuffer(self):