diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c6635417..ec700726 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ What's new in psycopg 2.4.3
   - Fixed interaction between RealDictCursor and named cursors
     (ticket #67).
   - Dropped limit on the columns length in COPY operations (ticket #68).
+  - Fixed typecasting of arrays containing consecutive backslashes.
   - 'errorcodes' map updated to PostgreSQL 9.1.
 
 
diff --git a/psycopg/typecast_array.c b/psycopg/typecast_array.c
index 6bb256f1..75b84b50 100644
--- a/psycopg/typecast_array.c
+++ b/psycopg/typecast_array.c
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ typecast_array_tokenize(const char *str, Py_ssize_t strlength,
     }
 
     if (res == ASCAN_QUOTED) {
-        Py_ssize_t j;
+        const char *j, *jj;
         char *buffer = PyMem_Malloc(l+1);
         if (buffer == NULL) {
             PyErr_NoMemory();
@@ -142,10 +142,9 @@ typecast_array_tokenize(const char *str, Py_ssize_t strlength,
 
         *token = buffer;
 
-        for (j = *pos; j < *pos+l; j++) {
-            if (str[j] != '\\'
-                || (j > *pos && str[j-1] == '\\'))
-                *(buffer++) = str[j];
+        for (j = str + *pos, jj = j + l; j < jj; ++j) {
+            if (*j == '\\') { ++j; }
+            *(buffer++) = *j;
         }
 
         *buffer = '\0';
diff --git a/tests/types_basic.py b/tests/types_basic.py
index 3686dec4..88c3844f 100755
--- a/tests/types_basic.py
+++ b/tests/types_basic.py
@@ -189,6 +189,17 @@ class TypesBasicTests(unittest.TestCase):
         s = self.execute("SELECT '{}'::text AS foo")
         self.failUnlessEqual(s, "{}")
 
+    def testArrayEscape(self):
+        ss = ['', '\\', '"', '\\\\', '\\"']
+        for s in ss:
+            r = self.execute("SELECT %s AS foo", (s,))
+            self.failUnlessEqual(s, r)
+            r = self.execute("SELECT %s AS foo", ([s],))
+            self.failUnlessEqual([s], r)
+
+        r = self.execute("SELECT %s AS foo", (ss,))
+        self.failUnlessEqual(ss, r)
+
     @testutils.skip_from_python(3)
     def testTypeRoundtripBuffer(self):
         o1 = buffer("".join(map(chr, range(256))))