diff --git a/runtime/drivers/duckdb/transporter_postgres_to_duckDB_test.go b/runtime/drivers/duckdb/transporter_postgres_to_duckDB_test.go
index 2a7bb9a0c3c..f67f6144865 100644
--- a/runtime/drivers/duckdb/transporter_postgres_to_duckDB_test.go
+++ b/runtime/drivers/duckdb/transporter_postgres_to_duckDB_test.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 var sqlStmt = `CREATE TYPE country AS ENUM ('IND', 'AUS', 'SA', 'NZ');
   CREATE TABLE all_datatypes (
 	id serial PRIMARY KEY,
+	uuid UUID,
 	name text,
 	age integer,
 	is_married boolean,
@@ -45,9 +46,9 @@ var sqlStmt = `CREATE TYPE country AS ENUM ('IND', 'AUS', 'SA', 'NZ');
 	emp_salary NUMERIC,
 	country country
   );
-  INSERT INTO all_datatypes (name, age, is_married, date_of_birth, time_of_day, created_at, json, json_data, bit,bit_varying, character, character_varying, bpchar, smallint, text, timestamptz, float4, float8, int2, int4, int8, int8_array, timestamptz_array, emp_salary, country)
+  INSERT INTO all_datatypes (uuid, name, age, is_married, date_of_birth, time_of_day, created_at, json, json_data, bit,bit_varying, character, character_varying, bpchar, smallint, text, timestamptz, float4, float8, int2, int4, int8, int8_array, timestamptz_array, emp_salary, country)
   VALUES
-	('John Doe', 30, true, '1983-03-08', '12:35:00', '2023-09-12 12:46:55', '{"name": "John Doe", "age": 30, "salary": 100000}', '{"name": "John Doe", "age": 30, "salary": 100000}', b'1',b'10101010', 'a', 'ab', 'abcd', 123, 'This is a text string.', '2023-09-12 12:46:55+05:30', 23.2, 123.45, 1, 1234, 1234567, Array[1234567, 7654312], Array[timestamp'2023-09-12 12:46:55+05:30', timestamp'2023-10-12 12:46:55+05:30'], 38500000000000.71256565656563, 'IND');  
+	(gen_random_uuid(), 'John Doe', 30, true, '1983-03-08', '12:35:00', '2023-09-12 12:46:55', '{"name": "John Doe", "age": 30, "salary": 100000}', '{"name": "John Doe", "age": 30, "salary": 100000}', b'1',b'10101010', 'a', 'ab', 'abcd', 123, 'This is a text string.', '2023-09-12 12:46:55+05:30', 23.2, 123.45, 1, 1234, 1234567, Array[1234567, 7654312], Array[timestamp'2023-09-12 12:46:55+05:30', timestamp'2023-10-12 12:46:55+05:30'], 38500000000000.71256565656563, 'IND');  
   `
 
 func TestTransfer(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/runtime/drivers/duckdb/transporter_sqlstore_to_duckDB.go b/runtime/drivers/duckdb/transporter_sqlstore_to_duckDB.go
index 2c4d4f12142..fe883418654 100644
--- a/runtime/drivers/duckdb/transporter_sqlstore_to_duckDB.go
+++ b/runtime/drivers/duckdb/transporter_sqlstore_to_duckDB.go
@@ -191,6 +191,9 @@ func (s *sqlStoreToDuckDB) transferFromRowIterator(ctx context.Context, iter dri
 						}
 						return err
 					}
+					if err := convert(row, schema); err != nil { // duckdb specific datatype conversion
+						return err
+					}
 
 					if err := a.AppendRow(row...); err != nil {
 						return err
@@ -224,6 +227,21 @@ func CreateTableQuery(schema *runtimev1.StructType, name string) (string, error)
 	return query, nil
 }
 
+func convert(row []driver.Value, schema *runtimev1.StructType) error {
+	for i, v := range row {
+		if schema.Fields[i].Type.Code == runtimev1.Type_CODE_UUID {
+			val, ok := v.([16]byte)
+			if !ok {
+				return fmt.Errorf("unknown type for UUID field %s: %T", schema.Fields[i].Name, v)
+			}
+			var uuid duckdb.UUID
+			copy(uuid[:], val[:])
+			row[i] = uuid
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 func pbTypeToDuckDB(t *runtimev1.Type) (string, error) {
 	code := t.Code
 	switch code {
diff --git a/runtime/drivers/postgres/parser.go b/runtime/drivers/postgres/parser.go
index eb940da79f1..c3dbe76724b 100644
--- a/runtime/drivers/postgres/parser.go
+++ b/runtime/drivers/postgres/parser.go
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/google/uuid"
 	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
 	runtimev1 "github.com/rilldata/rill/proto/gen/rill/runtime/v1"
 )
@@ -248,11 +247,7 @@ func (m *uuidMapper) runtimeType() *runtimev1.Type {
 func (m *uuidMapper) value(pgxVal any) (any, error) {
 	switch b := pgxVal.(type) {
 	case [16]byte:
-		id, err := uuid.FromBytes(b[:])
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		return id.String(), nil
+		return b, nil
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("uuidMapper: unsupported type %v", b)
 	}