diff --git a/mysql2pgsql/lib/postgres_writer.py b/mysql2pgsql/lib/postgres_writer.py
index b0f01ec..0aa14d3 100644
--- a/mysql2pgsql/lib/postgres_writer.py
+++ b/mysql2pgsql/lib/postgres_writer.py
@@ -148,7 +148,9 @@ def process_row(self, table, row):
             elif 'bit' in column_type:
                 row[index] = bin(ord(row[index]))[2:]
             elif isinstance(row[index], (str, unicode, basestring)):
-                if column_type == 'bytea':
+                if column_type == 'boolean':
+                    row[index] = 't' if row[index] == '\x01' else 'f' if row[index] == '\x00' else row[index]
+                elif column_type == 'bytea':
                     row[index] = Binary(row[index]).getquoted()[1:-8] if row[index] else row[index]
                 elif 'text[' in column_type:
                     row[index] = '{%s}' % ','.join('"%s"' % v.replace('"', r'\"') for v in row[index].split(','))