diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@
 Alexey Uimanov <s9gf4ult@gmail.com>
 Doug Beardsley <mightybyte@gmail.com>
 Manuel Gómez <targen@gmail.com>
+Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>
diff --git a/postgresql-simple.cabal b/postgresql-simple.cabal
--- a/postgresql-simple.cabal
+++ b/postgresql-simple.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                postgresql-simple
-Version:             0.3.7.0
+Version:             0.3.7.1
 Synopsis:            Mid-Level PostgreSQL client library
 Description:
     Mid-Level PostgreSQL client library, forked from mysql-simple.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     base < 5,
     blaze-builder,
     blaze-textual,
-    bytestring >= 0.10,
+    bytestring >= 0.9,
     containers,
     postgresql-libpq >= 0.6.2,
     template-haskell,
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 source-repository this
   type:     git
   location: http://github.com/lpsmith/postgresql-simple
-  tag:      v0.3.7.0
+  tag:      v0.3.7.1
 
 test-suite test
   type:           exitcode-stdio-1.0
diff --git a/src/Database/PostgreSQL/Simple/FromField.hs b/src/Database/PostgreSQL/Simple/FromField.hs
--- a/src/Database/PostgreSQL/Simple/FromField.hs
+++ b/src/Database/PostgreSQL/Simple/FromField.hs
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@
       else case mbs of
              Nothing -> returnError UnexpectedNull f ""
              Just bs ->
-                 case JSON.eitherDecode' $ LB.fromStrict bs of
+                 case JSON.eitherDecode' $ LB.fromChunks [bs] of
                    Left  err -> returnError ConversionFailed f err
                    Right val -> pure val