diff --git a/lib/DBIx/Class/InflateColumn.pm b/lib/DBIx/Class/InflateColumn.pm
index 9214582a4..ae98d75e2 100644
--- a/lib/DBIx/Class/InflateColumn.pm
+++ b/lib/DBIx/Class/InflateColumn.pm
@@ -116,7 +116,15 @@ sub _deflated_column {
   my ($self, $col, $value) = @_;
 #  return $value unless ref $value && blessed($value); # If it's not an object, don't touch it
   ## Leave scalar refs (ala SQL::Abstract literal SQL), untouched, deflate all other refs
-  return $value unless (ref $value && ref($value) ne 'SCALAR');
+  ## Also leave ref refs if it is ARRAY
+  return $value
+    unless (
+      ref $value
+      && !(    ref($value) eq 'SCALAR'
+          || ( ref($value) eq 'REF' && ref($$value) eq 'ARRAY' )
+      )
+  );
+
   my $info = $self->column_info($col) or
     $self->throw_exception("No column info for $col");
   return $value unless exists $info->{_inflate_info};
diff --git a/t/update/array_literal_bind.t b/t/update/array_literal_bind.t
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..19c7e9702
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/update/array_literal_bind.t
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Test::More;
+use Test::Warn;
+use Try::Tiny;
+use lib qw(t/lib);
+use DBICTest;
+
+my $schema = DBICTest->init_schema();
+
+my $event = $schema->resultset("Event")->find(1);
+
+ok(
+    $event->update(
+        {
+            starts_at => \[
+                'MAX(starts_at, datetime(?), datetime(?))',
+                '2006-04-25T22:24:33',
+                '2007-04-25T22:24:33',
+            ]
+        }
+    ),
+    'update without error'
+);
+
+$event = $event->get_from_storage();
+
+is(
+    $event->starts_at . '',
+    '2007-04-25T22:24:33',
+    'starts_at updated properly'
+);
+
+done_testing;