diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/PostgreSQLDialect.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/PostgreSQLDialect.java
index 99c8bb9fbe..d0a8a676d1 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/PostgreSQLDialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/PostgreSQLDialect.java
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ public class PostgreSQLDialect extends Dialect {
 		registerColumnType( Types.TIME, "time" );
 		registerColumnType( Types.TIMESTAMP, "timestamp" );
 		registerColumnType( Types.VARBINARY, "bytea" );
+		registerColumnType( Types.BINARY, "bytea" );
 		registerColumnType( Types.LONGVARCHAR, "text" );
 		registerColumnType( Types.LONGVARBINARY, "bytea" );
 		registerColumnType( Types.CLOB, "text" );
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/engine/internal/Nullability.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/engine/internal/Nullability.java
index 5f9f9d6aea..c3698b29c8 100755
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/engine/internal/Nullability.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/engine/internal/Nullability.java
@@ -200,14 +200,14 @@ public final class Nullability {
 
 	/**
 	 * Return a well formed property path.
-	 * Basicaly, it will return parent.child
+	 * Basically, it will return parent.child
 	 *
 	 * @param parent parent in path
 	 * @param child child in path
 	 * @return parent-child path
 	 */
 	private static String buildPropertyPath(String parent, String child) {
-		return new StringBuffer( parent.length() + child.length() + 1 )
+		return new StringBuilder( parent.length() + child.length() + 1 )
 			.append(parent).append('.').append(child).toString();
 	}