diff --git a/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/PostgreSQLLegacyDialect.java b/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/PostgreSQLLegacyDialect.java
index e906643aa9..8416fa63cb 100644
--- a/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/PostgreSQLLegacyDialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/PostgreSQLLegacyDialect.java
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ public class PostgreSQLLegacyDialect extends Dialect {
 			// "long" string types
 			case LONG32VARCHAR:
 			case LONG32NVARCHAR:
-				return "text";
+				return "varchar";
 			case BLOB:
 			case CLOB:
 			case NCLOB:
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ public class PostgreSQLLegacyDialect extends Dialect {
 			case NVARCHAR:
 			case LONG32VARCHAR:
 			case LONG32NVARCHAR:
-				return "text";
+				return "varchar";
 			case BINARY:
 			case VARBINARY:
 			case LONG32VARBINARY:
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 f4fde81282..7c3ac3f15d 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/PostgreSQLDialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/PostgreSQLDialect.java
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ public class PostgreSQLDialect extends Dialect {
 			// since there's no real difference between TEXT and VARCHAR,
 			// except for the length limit, we can just use 'text' for the
 			// "long" string types
-			case LONG32VARCHAR, LONG32NVARCHAR -> "text";
+			case LONG32VARCHAR, LONG32NVARCHAR -> "varchar";
 
 			// use oid as the blob/clob type on Postgres because
 			// the JDBC driver doesn't allow using bytea/text via
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ public class PostgreSQLDialect extends Dialect {
 	@Override
 	protected String castType(int sqlTypeCode) {
 		return switch (sqlTypeCode) {
-			case CHAR, NCHAR, VARCHAR, NVARCHAR, LONG32VARCHAR, LONG32NVARCHAR -> "text";
+			case CHAR, NCHAR, VARCHAR, NVARCHAR, LONG32VARCHAR, LONG32NVARCHAR -> "varchar";
 			case BINARY, VARBINARY, LONG32VARBINARY -> "bytea";
 			default -> super.castType( sqlTypeCode );
 		};