diff --git a/jOOQ-codegen/src/main/java/org/jooq/codegen/JavaGenerator.java b/jOOQ-codegen/src/main/java/org/jooq/codegen/JavaGenerator.java
index 4432917eb7..d279003594 100644
--- a/jOOQ-codegen/src/main/java/org/jooq/codegen/JavaGenerator.java
+++ b/jOOQ-codegen/src/main/java/org/jooq/codegen/JavaGenerator.java
@@ -5974,9 +5974,9 @@ public class JavaGenerator extends AbstractGenerator {
                 db,
                 type.getSchema(),
                 baseType.last(),
-                0,
-                0,
-                0,
+                type.getPrecision(),
+                type.getScale(),
+                type.getLength(),
                 true,
                 false,
                 null,
diff --git a/jOOQ-meta/src/main/java/org/jooq/meta/hsqldb/HSQLDBTableDefinition.java b/jOOQ-meta/src/main/java/org/jooq/meta/hsqldb/HSQLDBTableDefinition.java
index eb5ea3fef2..6a3e479a08 100644
--- a/jOOQ-meta/src/main/java/org/jooq/meta/hsqldb/HSQLDBTableDefinition.java
+++ b/jOOQ-meta/src/main/java/org/jooq/meta/hsqldb/HSQLDBTableDefinition.java
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ public class HSQLDBTableDefinition extends AbstractTableDefinition {
                 COLUMNS.IDENTITY_GENERATION,
                 COLUMNS.IS_NULLABLE,
                 COLUMNS.COLUMN_DEFAULT,
-                COLUMNS.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH,
-                COLUMNS.NUMERIC_PRECISION,
-                COLUMNS.NUMERIC_SCALE,
+                nvl(ELEMENT_TYPES.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, COLUMNS.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH).as(COLUMNS.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH),
+                nvl(ELEMENT_TYPES.NUMERIC_PRECISION, COLUMNS.NUMERIC_PRECISION).as(COLUMNS.NUMERIC_PRECISION),
+                nvl(ELEMENT_TYPES.NUMERIC_SCALE, COLUMNS.NUMERIC_SCALE).as(COLUMNS.NUMERIC_SCALE),
                 COLUMNS.UDT_NAME)
             .from(COLUMNS)
             .leftOuterJoin(ELEMENT_TYPES)
diff --git a/jOOQ-meta/src/main/java/org/jooq/meta/postgres/PostgresTableDefinition.java b/jOOQ-meta/src/main/java/org/jooq/meta/postgres/PostgresTableDefinition.java
index 25a7ff5606..2bce329a10 100644
--- a/jOOQ-meta/src/main/java/org/jooq/meta/postgres/PostgresTableDefinition.java
+++ b/jOOQ-meta/src/main/java/org/jooq/meta/postgres/PostgresTableDefinition.java
@@ -38,8 +38,12 @@
 
 package org.jooq.meta.postgres;
 
+import static org.jooq.impl.DSL.inline;
 import static org.jooq.impl.DSL.name;
+import static org.jooq.impl.DSL.nvl;
+import static org.jooq.impl.DSL.when;
 import static org.jooq.meta.postgres.information_schema.Tables.COLUMNS;
+import static org.jooq.meta.postgres.pg_catalog.Tables.PG_ATTRIBUTE;
 import static org.jooq.meta.postgres.pg_catalog.Tables.PG_CLASS;
 import static org.jooq.meta.postgres.pg_catalog.Tables.PG_DESCRIPTION;
 import static org.jooq.meta.postgres.pg_catalog.Tables.PG_NAMESPACE;
@@ -75,7 +79,11 @@ public class PostgresTableDefinition extends AbstractTableDefinition {
                 COLUMNS.COLUMN_NAME,
                 COLUMNS.ORDINAL_POSITION,
                 COLUMNS.DATA_TYPE,
-                COLUMNS.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH,
+
+                // [#8067] A more robust / sophisticated decoding might be available
+                nvl(
+                    COLUMNS.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH,
+                    when(COLUMNS.UDT_NAME.eq(inline("_varchar")), PG_ATTRIBUTE.ATTTYPMOD.sub(inline(4)))).as(COLUMNS.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH),
                 COLUMNS.NUMERIC_PRECISION,
                 COLUMNS.NUMERIC_SCALE,
                 COLUMNS.IS_NULLABLE,
@@ -89,6 +97,9 @@ public class PostgresTableDefinition extends AbstractTableDefinition {
             .join(PG_CLASS)
                 .on(PG_CLASS.RELNAME.eq(COLUMNS.TABLE_NAME))
                 .and(PG_CLASS.RELNAMESPACE.eq(oid(PG_NAMESPACE)))
+            .join(PG_ATTRIBUTE)
+                .on(PG_ATTRIBUTE.ATTRELID.eq(oid(PG_CLASS)))
+                .and(PG_ATTRIBUTE.ATTNAME.eq(COLUMNS.COLUMN_NAME))
             .leftOuterJoin(PG_DESCRIPTION)
                 .on(PG_DESCRIPTION.OBJOID.eq(oid(PG_CLASS)))
                 .and(PG_DESCRIPTION.OBJSUBID.eq(COLUMNS.ORDINAL_POSITION))