diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/metadata/metadata_cache.c b/src/backend/distributed/metadata/metadata_cache.c
index 7b6df07ae..a092a9ae6 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/metadata/metadata_cache.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/metadata/metadata_cache.c
@@ -1387,11 +1387,15 @@ BuildCitusTableCacheEntry(Oid relationId)
 		cacheEntry->replicationModel = DatumGetChar(replicationModelDatum);
 	}
 
-	cacheEntry->autoConverted = datumArray[Anum_pg_dist_partition_autoconverted - 1];
 	if (isNullArray[Anum_pg_dist_partition_autoconverted - 1])
 	{
 		cacheEntry->autoConverted = false;
 	}
+	else
+	{
+		cacheEntry->autoConverted = DatumGetBool(
+			datumArray[Anum_pg_dist_partition_autoconverted - 1]);
+	}
 
 	heap_freetuple(distPartitionTuple);