diff --git a/lib/Quoter.pm b/lib/Quoter.pm
index a7db876b..ee0f624a 100644
--- a/lib/Quoter.pm
+++ b/lib/Quoter.pm
@@ -144,6 +144,68 @@ sub join_quote {
    return $db ? "$db.$tbl" : $tbl;
 }
 
+# Nothing much going on here. Return the list passed in,
+# with the elements passed through quotemeta, and the results
+# concatenated with ','
+sub serialize_list {
+   my @args = @_;
+   if ( @args && $args[-1] eq '' ) {
+      # If the last element is an empty string, it conflicts
+      # with the assumptions of the somewhat lax regex below,
+      # which always leaves an empty element in the end.
+      # We could fix the regex, but it's a lot of extra
+      # complexity for little gain, or we could add a
+      # special-case here. Just by tagging another empty
+      # string, we get the desired result.
+      push @args, '';
+   }
+   return join ',', map { quotemeta } @args;
+}
+
+sub deserialize_list {
+   my ( $string )      = @_;
+   my @escaped_parts   = $string =~ /
+         \G             # Start of string, or end of previous match.
+         (              # Each of these is an element in the original list.
+            [^\\,]*     # Anything not a backslash or a comma
+            (?:         # When we get here, we found one of the above.
+               \\.      # A backslash followed by something means we can continue
+               [^\\,]*  # Same as above.
+            )*          # Repeat zero of more times.
+         )
+         (?:,|\z)       # Comma dividing elements, or absolute end of the string.
+      /sxg;
+   pop @escaped_parts; # Last element will always be empty. Flaw in the regex.
+                       # But easier to fix this way. Faster, too.
+   my @unescaped_parts = map {
+         # Undo the quotemeta().
+         my $part = $_;
+         # Here be weirdness. Unfortunately quotemeta() is broken, and exposes
+         # the internal representation of scalars. Namely, the latin-1 range,
+         # \128-\377 (\p{Latin1} in newer Perls) is all escaped in downgraded
+         # strings, but left alone in UTF-8 strings. Thus, this.
+
+            # TODO: quotemeta() might change in 5.16 to mean
+            # qr/(?=\p{ASCII})\W|\p{Pattern_Syntax}/
+            # And also fix this whole weird behavior under
+            # use feature 'unicode_strings' --  If/once that's
+            # implemented, this will have to change.
+         my $char_class = utf8::is_utf8($part)  # If it's a UTF-8 string,
+                        ? qr/(?=\p{ASCII})\W/   # We only care about non-word
+                                                # characters in the ASCII range
+                        : qr/(?=\p{ASCII})\W|[\x{80}-\x{FF}]/; # Otherwise,
+                                                # same as above, but also
+                                                # unescape the latin-1 range.
+         $part =~ s/\\($char_class)/$1/g;
+                  # As a somewhat uplifting note, all of the above is more
+                  # or less fixed in newer Perls! quotemeta() is still
+                  # broken, but regexen can deal with it more naturally.
+         $part;
+      } @escaped_parts;
+   return @unescaped_parts;
+}
+
+
 1;
 }
 # ###########################################################################
diff --git a/t/lib/Quoter.t b/t/lib/Quoter.t
index 5a8983d3..e3db522e 100644
--- a/t/lib/Quoter.t
+++ b/t/lib/Quoter.t
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ BEGIN {
 use strict;
 use warnings FATAL => 'all';
 use English qw(-no_match_vars);
-use Test::More tests => 31;
+use Test::More tests => 63;
 
 use Quoter;
 use PerconaTest;
@@ -99,4 +99,76 @@ is( $q->join_quote('`db`', '`tbl`'), '`db`.`tbl`', 'join_merge(`db`, `tbl`)' );
 is( $q->join_quote(undef, '`tbl`'), '`tbl`', 'join_merge(undef, `tbl`)'  );
 is( $q->join_quote('`db`', '`foo`.`tbl`'), '`foo`.`tbl`', 'join_merge(`db`, `foo`.`tbl`)' );
 
+my @serialize_tests = (
+   [ 'a', 'b', ],
+   [ 'a,', 'b', ],
+   [ "a,\\\nc\nas", 'b', ],
+   [ 'a\\\,a', 'c', ],
+   [ 'a\\\\,a', 'c', ],
+   [ 'a\\\\\,aa', 'c', ],
+   [ 'a\\\\\\,aa', 'c', ],
+   [ 'a\\\,a,a', 'c,d,e,d,', ],
+   [ "\\\,\x{e8},a", '!!!!__!*`,`\\', ], # Latin-1
+   [ "\x{30cb}\\\,\x{e8},a", '!!!!__!*`,`\\', ], # UTF-8
+   [ ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,", ",", ],
+   [ "\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,\\,,,,\\", ":(", ],
+   [ "asdfa", "\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\,a", ],
+   [ 1, 2 ],
+   [ 7, 9 ],
+   [ '', '', '', ],
+);
+
+for my $test ( @serialize_tests ) {
+   my $ser = Quoter::serialize_list( @$test );
+   is_deeply(
+      [Quoter::deserialize_list($ser)],
+      $test,
+      "serialize then deserialize works"
+   );
+}
+
+use DSNParser;
+use Sandbox;
+my $dp = new DSNParser(opts=>$dsn_opts);
+my $sb = new Sandbox(basedir => '/tmp', DSNParser => $dp);
+my $dbh = $sb->get_dbh_for('master');
+SKIP: {
+   skip 'Cannot connect to sandbox master', 1 unless $dbh;
+
+   $dbh->do('CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS serialize_test');
+   $dbh->do('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS serialize_test.serialize');
+   $dbh->do('CREATE TABLE serialize_test.serialize (id INT, foo TEXT)');
+
+   my $sth    = $dbh->prepare(
+      "INSERT INTO serialize_test.serialize (id, foo) VALUES (?, ?)"
+   );
+   my $selsth = $dbh->prepare(
+      "SELECT foo FROM serialize_test.serialize WHERE id=? LIMIT 1"
+   );
+
+   for my $test_index ( 0..$#serialize_tests ) {
+      my $ser = Quoter::serialize_list( @{$serialize_tests[$test_index]} );
+
+      # Bit of a hack, but we want to test both of Perl's internal encodings
+      # for correctness.
+      local $dbh->{'mysql_enable_utf8'} = 1 if utf8::is_utf8($ser);
+
+      $sth->execute($test_index, $ser);
+      $selsth->execute($test_index);
+
+      is_deeply(
+         [Quoter::deserialize_list($selsth->fetchrow_array())],
+         $serialize_tests[$test_index],
+         "serialize then deserialize through the DB works"
+      );
+   }
+
+   $sth->finish();
+   $selsth->finish();
+
+   $dbh->do("DROP DATABASE serialize_test");
+
+   $dbh->disconnect();
+};
+
 exit;