Hello,

First of all, let me thank you so much for this great project. It's really helpful.

I am facing one problem though. it's returning all bytes instead of strings. looping through the query huge output to decode everything to strings takes relatively long time. Is there anyway to make it return strings instead of bytes?

I have read somewhere that downgrading mysqlclient to 1.3.9 would make it return strings, have you tried that?

Again, thank you so much!