diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog for persistent-mysql
 
+##  2.13.1.5
+
+* [#1526](https://github.com/yesodweb/persistent/pull/1526)
+    * Parse `tinyint` column as `SqlOther "tinyint"` rather than `SqlBool`, fixing breakage in legitimate non-Boolean uses of `tinyint` on MySQL 8.0
+
 ##  2.13.1.4
 
 * [#1459](https://github.com/yesodweb/persistent/pull/1459)
diff --git a/Database/Persist/MySQL.hs b/Database/Persist/MySQL.hs
--- a/Database/Persist/MySQL.hs
+++ b/Database/Persist/MySQL.hs
@@ -827,14 +827,16 @@
 -- @INFORMATION_SCHEMA@ tables.
 parseColumnType :: Text -> ColumnInfo -> ExceptT String IO (SqlType, Maybe Integer)
 -- Ints
--- The display width is deprecated and being removed in MySQL 8.X.  To be
--- consistent with earlier versions, which do report it, accept either
+-- The display width is deprecated and being removed in MySQL 8.X
+-- with [an exception of tinyint(1) which is used for boolean values](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-19.html#mysqld-8-0-19-deprecation-removal).
+-- To be consistent with earlier versions, which do report it, accept either
 -- the bare type in `ciColumnType ci`, or the type adorned with the expected
 -- value for the display width (ie the defaults for int and bigint, or the
 -- value explicitly set in `showSqlType` for SqlBool).
 --
 parseColumnType "tinyint" ci
-    | ciColumnType ci == "tinyint" || ciColumnType ci == "tinyint(1)" = return (SqlBool, Nothing)
+    | ciColumnType ci == "tinyint(1)" = return (SqlBool, Nothing)
+    | otherwise = return (SqlOther "tinyint", Nothing)
 parseColumnType "int" ci
     | ciColumnType ci == "int"     || ciColumnType ci == "int(11)"    = return (SqlInt32, Nothing)
 parseColumnType "bigint" ci
@@ -1023,10 +1025,8 @@
             -> String
 showSqlType SqlBlob    Nothing    _     = "BLOB"
 showSqlType SqlBlob    (Just i)   _     = "VARBINARY(" ++ show i ++ ")"
--- "tinyint(1)" has been used historically here.  In MySQL 8, the display width
--- is deprecated, and in the future it may need to be removed here.  However,
--- "(1)" is not the default in older MySQL versions, so for them omitting it
--- would alter the exact form of the column type in the information_schema.
+-- While integer widths are deprecated in MySQL 8.0, "tinyint(1)" remains as an exception.
+-- cf. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-19.html#mysqld-8-0-19-deprecation-removal
 showSqlType SqlBool    _          _     = "TINYINT(1)"
 showSqlType SqlDay     _          _     = "DATE"
 showSqlType SqlDayTime _          _     = "DATETIME"
diff --git a/persistent-mysql.cabal b/persistent-mysql.cabal
--- a/persistent-mysql.cabal
+++ b/persistent-mysql.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:            persistent-mysql
-version:         2.13.1.4
+version:         2.13.1.5
 license:         MIT
 license-file:    LICENSE
 author:          Felipe Lessa <felipe.lessa@gmail.com>, Michael Snoyman
diff --git a/test/MyInit.hs b/test/MyInit.hs
--- a/test/MyInit.hs
+++ b/test/MyInit.hs
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
             }
     _ <- if not travis
       then withMySQLPool baseConnectInfo
-                        { connectHost     = "localhost"
+                        { connectHost     = "127.0.0.1"
                         , connectUser     = "test"
                         , connectPassword = "test"
                         , connectDatabase = "test"
diff --git a/test/main.hs b/test/main.hs
--- a/test/main.hs
+++ b/test/main.hs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 import qualified Data.ByteString as BS
 import Data.Fixed
+import Data.Int (Int8)
 import Data.IntMap (IntMap)
 import qualified Data.Text as T
 import Data.Time (Day, TimeOfDay, UTCTime(..), timeOfDayToTime, timeToTimeOfDay)
@@ -90,6 +91,8 @@
     -- off for older servers by defining OLD_MYSQL.
     timeFrac TimeOfDay sqltype=TIME(6)
     utcFrac UTCTime sqltype=DATETIME(6)
+    tinyint Int8 sqltype=TINYINT
+    tinyint4 Int8 sqltype=TINYINT(4)
 |]
 
 instance Arbitrary (DataTypeTableGeneric backend) where
@@ -110,7 +113,8 @@
      <*> (truncateUTCTime   =<< arbitrary) -- utc
      <*> (truncateTimeOfDay =<< arbitrary) -- timeFrac
      <*> (truncateUTCTime   =<< arbitrary) -- utcFrac
-
+     <*> arbitrary              -- tinyint
+     <*> choose (-8, 7)         -- tinyint4
 setup :: (HasCallStack, MonadUnliftIO m) => Migration -> ReaderT SqlBackend m ()
 setup migration = do
   printMigration migration
@@ -169,6 +173,8 @@
             , TestFn "utc" (roundUTCTime . dataTypeTableUtc)
             , TestFn "timeFrac" (dataTypeTableTimeFrac)
             , TestFn "utcFrac" (dataTypeTableUtcFrac)
+            , TestFn "tinyint" dataTypeTableTinyint
+            , TestFn "tinyint4" dataTypeTableTinyint4
             ]
             [ ("pico", dataTypeTablePico) ]
             dataTypeTableDouble