diff --git a/src/Val.cc b/src/Val.cc
index cf9ee031fd..e0ba8df9bf 100644
--- a/src/Val.cc
+++ b/src/Val.cc
@@ -2866,7 +2866,7 @@ RecordVal::RecordVal(RecordType* t) : MutableVal(t)
 			else if ( tag == TYPE_TABLE )
 				def = new TableVal(type->AsTableType(), a);
 
-			else if ( t->Tag() == TYPE_VECTOR )
+			else if ( tag == TYPE_VECTOR )
 				def = new VectorVal(type->AsVectorType());
 			}
 
diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/language.rec-comp-init/output b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.rec-comp-init/output
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fedb9177c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.rec-comp-init/output
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[a={
+
+}, b={
+
+}, c=[]]
diff --git a/testing/btest/language/rec-comp-init.bro b/testing/btest/language/rec-comp-init.bro
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..598c0cf3bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/language/rec-comp-init.bro
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# @TEST-EXEC: bro %INPUT  >output 2>&1
+# @TEST-EXEC: btest-diff output
+
+# Make sure composit types in records are initialized.
+
+type Foo: record {
+	a: set[count];
+	b: table[count] of string;
+	c: vector of string;
+};
+
+global f: Foo;
+
+print f;