diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4233bfeda9..77bafc56d1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ With this release the systemd configuration files for InfluxDB will use the syst
 - [#6738](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/6738): Time sorting broken with overwritten points
 - [#6829](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/6829): Fix panic: runtime error: index out of range
 - [#6911](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/6911): Fix fill(previous) when used with math operators.
+- [#6934](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/6934): Fix regex binary encoding for a measurement.
 
 ## v0.13.0 [2016-05-12]
 
diff --git a/influxql/ast.go b/influxql/ast.go
index 5a2b3b35fa..48eeff8d65 100644
--- a/influxql/ast.go
+++ b/influxql/ast.go
@@ -3071,7 +3071,7 @@ func encodeMeasurement(mm *Measurement) *internal.Measurement {
 		IsTarget:        proto.Bool(mm.IsTarget),
 	}
 	if mm.Regex != nil {
-		pb.Regex = proto.String(mm.Regex.String())
+		pb.Regex = proto.String(mm.Regex.Val.String())
 	}
 	return pb
 }
diff --git a/influxql/iterator_test.go b/influxql/iterator_test.go
index 3f6aa93d98..910efbc063 100644
--- a/influxql/iterator_test.go
+++ b/influxql/iterator_test.go
@@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ func TestIteratorOptions_MarshalBinary_Measurement_Regex(t *testing.T) {
 	var other influxql.IteratorOptions
 	if err := other.UnmarshalBinary(buf); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
-	} else if v := other.Sources[0].(*influxql.Measurement).Regex.Val.String(); v != `/series.+/` {
+	} else if v := other.Sources[0].(*influxql.Measurement).Regex.Val.String(); v != `series.+` {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected measurement regex: %s", v)
 	}
 }