diff --git a/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/depot/operator/Arithmetic.java b/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/depot/operator/Arithmetic.java
index f1d8858..0358e8e 100644
--- a/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/depot/operator/Arithmetic.java
+++ b/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/depot/operator/Arithmetic.java
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ public abstract class Arithmetic
         @Override
         public String operator()
         {
-            return "/";
+            return " / "; // Pad with spaces to work-around a MySQL bug.
         }
     }