diff --git a/src/Expr.cc b/src/Expr.cc
index 6d08955113..9b32b535c7 100644
--- a/src/Expr.cc
+++ b/src/Expr.cc
@@ -3977,7 +3977,7 @@ VectorConstructorExpr::VectorConstructorExpr(ListExprPtr constructor_list, TypeP
 			return;
 			}
 
-		if ( auto t = merge_type_list(op->AsListExpr()) )
+		if ( auto t = maximal_type(op->AsListExpr()) )
 			SetType(make_intrusive<VectorType>(std::move(t)));
 		else
 			{
diff --git a/src/Type.cc b/src/Type.cc
index ae0cfddb66..c6029489b5 100644
--- a/src/Type.cc
+++ b/src/Type.cc
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ const char* type_name(TypeTag t)
 	return type_names[int(t)];
 	}
 
+// Given two types, returns the "merge", in which promotable types
+// are promoted to the maximum of the two.  Returns nil (and generates
+// an error message) if the types are incompatible.
+static TypePtr merge_types(const TypePtr& t1, const TypePtr& t2);
+
 Type::Type(TypeTag t, bool arg_base_type)
 	: tag(t), internal_tag(to_internal_type_tag(tag)), is_network_order(zeek::is_network_order(t)),
 	  base_type(arg_base_type)
@@ -2673,7 +2678,7 @@ TypePtr merge_types(const TypePtr& arg_t1, const TypePtr& arg_t2)
 		}
 	}
 
-TypePtr merge_type_list(detail::ListExpr* elements)
+TypePtr maximal_type(detail::ListExpr* elements)
 	{
 	TypeList* tl_type = elements->GetType()->AsTypeList();
 	const auto& tl = tl_type->GetTypes();
@@ -2690,7 +2695,21 @@ TypePtr merge_type_list(detail::ListExpr* elements)
 		return t;
 
 	for ( size_t i = 1; t && i < tl.size(); ++i )
-		t = merge_types(t, tl[i]);
+		{
+		auto& tl_i = tl[i];
+
+		if ( t == tl_i )
+			continue;
+
+		if ( BothArithmetic(t->Tag(), tl_i->Tag()) )
+			t = merge_types(t, tl_i);
+
+		else if ( t->Tag() == TYPE_ENUM && tl_i->Tag() == TYPE_ENUM )
+			t = merge_enum_types(t.get(), tl_i.get());
+
+		else if ( ! same_type(t, tl_i) )
+			t = nullptr;
+		}
 
 	if ( ! t )
 		reporter->Error("inconsistent types in list");
diff --git a/src/Type.h b/src/Type.h
index f9541fb1b7..96517a7727 100644
--- a/src/Type.h
+++ b/src/Type.h
@@ -923,15 +923,10 @@ extern Type* flatten_type(Type* t);
 // Returns the "maximum" of two type tags, in a type-promotion sense.
 extern TypeTag max_type(TypeTag t1, TypeTag t2);
 
-// Given two types, returns the "merge", in which promotable types
-// are promoted to the maximum of the two.  Returns nil (and generates
-// an error message) if the types are incompatible.
-TypePtr merge_types(const TypePtr& t1, const TypePtr& t2);
-
-// Given a list of expressions, returns a (ref'd) type reflecting
-// a merged type consistent across all of them, or nil if this
-// cannot be done.
-TypePtr merge_type_list(detail::ListExpr* elements);
+// Given a list of expressions, returns the maximal type consistent across
+// all of them, or nil if this cannot be done.  "Maximal" incorporates
+// notions of arithmetic coercion, but otherwise requires type-equivalence.
+TypePtr maximal_type(detail::ListExpr* elements);
 
 // Given an expression, infer its type when used for an initialization.
 TypePtr init_type(const detail::ExprPtr& init);
diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/language.vector-coerce-expr2/output b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.vector-coerce-expr2/output
index d2ecf26c04..2b2db4ee2d 100644
--- a/testing/btest/Baseline/language.vector-coerce-expr2/output
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.vector-coerce-expr2/output
@@ -3,3 +3,13 @@
 [11, 5, , 107, , , 1046]
 [-2, -4, , -7, , -18, -999]
 [, -1, 11, 15]
+[connT
+{ 
+return (T);
+}, connF
+{ 
+return (F);
+}, connMaybe
+{ 
+return (c$id$orig_p < c$id$resp_p);
+}]
diff --git a/testing/btest/language/vector-coerce-expr2.zeek b/testing/btest/language/vector-coerce-expr2.zeek
index 96c4be43a4..a3ec7ed345 100644
--- a/testing/btest/language/vector-coerce-expr2.zeek
+++ b/testing/btest/language/vector-coerce-expr2.zeek
@@ -51,3 +51,30 @@ event zeek_init()
 
 	print d;
 	}
+
+type recursive: record {
+	placeholder: bool;
+};
+
+redef record recursive += { rec: table[count] of recursive &optional; };
+
+function connT(c: connection, r: recursive): bool
+	{
+	return T;
+	}
+
+function connF(c: connection, r: recursive): bool
+	{
+	return F;
+	}
+
+function connMaybe(c: connection, r: recursive): bool
+	{
+	return c$id$orig_p < c$id$resp_p;
+	}
+
+event zeek_init()
+	{
+	local v = vector(connT, connF, connMaybe);
+	print v;
+	}