Q:

what does "Not a PersistText value" mean?

I'm new to yesod and I'm trying to make the same blog project from this screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SadfV-qbVg8 with the only difference being that I'm using MariaDB instead of PostgreSQL. Every time I add a new blog post and redirect to the page that shows it I see this error:
[Error#yesod-core] get BlogPostKey {unBlogPostKey = SqlBackendKey {unSqlBackendKey = 5}}: field article: Not a PersistText value @(yesod-core-1.4.12:Yesod.Core.Class.Yesod ./Yesod/Core/Class/Yesod.hs:577:5)

What exactly does that mean? If I look into the database, it has all the posts stored correctly. Why does it fail to load the posts from the database?
Here's the code
model
User
    ident Text
    password Text Maybe
    UniqueUser ident
    deriving Typeable
Email
    email Text
    user UserId Maybe
    verkey Text Maybe
    UniqueEmail email

BlogPost
    title Text
    article Markdown

PostDetails.hs (Gets the post from DB and shows it)
module Handler.PostDetails where

import Import

getPostDetailsR :: BlogPostId -> Handler Html
getPostDetailsR blogPostId = do     
    blogPost <- runDB $ get404 blogPostId 
    defaultLayout $ do
    $(widgetFile "postDetails/post")

PostNew.hs (Creates a new post and stores it in the DB, after insertion, it redirects to PostDetails.hs with the new post)
module Handler.PostNew where

import Import
import Yesod.Form.Bootstrap3
import Yesod.Text.Markdown

blogPostForm :: AForm Handler BlogPost
blogPostForm = BlogPost 
            <$> areq textField (bfs ("Title" :: Text)) Nothing
            <*> areq markdownField (bfs ("Article" :: Text)) Nothing

getPostNewR :: Handler Html
getPostNewR = do
    (widget, enctype) <- generateFormPost $ renderBootstrap3 BootstrapBasicForm blogPostForm
    defaultLayout $ do
        $(widgetFile "posts/new")

postPostNewR :: Handler Html
postPostNewR = do
    ((res, widget), enctype) <- runFormPost $ renderBootstrap3 BootstrapBasicForm blogPostForm
    case res of
     FormSuccess blogPost -> do
        blogPostId <- runDB $ insert blogPost
        redirect $ PostDetailsR blogPostId
     _ -> defaultLayout $(widgetFile "posts/new")

I don't understand why the compiler doesn't catch this error. When I create a post, instead of the title I se "Internal Server Error"

A:

This turned out to be caused by a bug in the persistent-mysql package that's now fixed in persistent-mysql-2.3.
Here's the root cause for those interested:
The MySQL C library (and by extension the Haskell mysql package, which persistent-mysql depends on) doesn't distinguish between binary and textual data at the type level. So if you saved a TEXT value to the database, when it was looked it up by persistent it appeared to be binary data (a PersistByteString).
This was fixed in #451 by checking the character set of the column, which the MySQL API docs recommend as the appropriate solution.
For more details, see that pull request or this issue.
Thanks for asking this question; I wouldn't have realized there was a bug otherwise.

