diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 8bb67077..3fdb3bda 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.0.6 (2012-09-04 15:07:04) stable
+Version 2.0.6 (2012-09-04 15:08:58) stable
diff --git a/gluon/dal.py b/gluon/dal.py
index e6846d0c..8a180561 100644
--- a/gluon/dal.py
+++ b/gluon/dal.py
@@ -2379,9 +2379,9 @@ class PostgreSQLAdapter(BaseAdapter):
         if self.driver_name == 'psycopg2':
             return psycopg2_adapt(obj).getquoted()
         elif self.driver_name == 'pg8000':
-            return str(obj).replace("%","%%").replace("'","''")
+            return "'%s'" % str(obj).replace("%","%%").replace("'","''")
         else:
-            return str(obj).replace("'","''")
+            return "'%s'" % str(obj).replace("'","''")
 
     def sequence_name(self,table):
         return '%s_id_Seq' % table