Liquibase generates invalid SQL for 'character varying' type

Given changeset like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<databaseChangeLog xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog
http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-3.1.xsd">

<changeSet id="1" author="ccc">
<createTable tableName="t">
<column name="afield" type="character varying(256)"/>
</createTable>
</changeSet>

</databaseChangeLog>

Liquibase will generate an SQL which is wrong:

1. ./liquibase --driver= --changeLogFile=cs.xml '--url=jdbcostgresql://localhost/mydb?prepareThreshold=3' --username=me --password= --classpath=/usr/share/dcache/classes/postgresql-9.3-1101-jdbc41.jar updateSQL

   • *********************************************************************

   • Update Database Script

   • *********************************************************************

   • Change Log: cs.xml

   • Ran at: 4/10/14 8:13 AM

   • Against: mydb@jdbcostgresql://localhost/chimera?prepareThreshold=3

   • Liquibase version: 3.1.1

   • *********************************************************************

– Lock Database
– Changeset cs.xml::1::ccc
CREATE TABLE public.t (afield CHARACTER(256) varying);

INSERT INTO public.databasechangelog (ID, AUTHOR, FILENAME, DATEEXECUTED, ORDEREXECUTED, MD5SUM, DESCRIPTION, COMMENTS, EXECTYPE, LIQUIBASE) VALUES ('1', 'ccc', 'cs.xml', NOW(), 25, '7:eceb8ce8eae916d19dfd3cf9fac45b4a', 'createTable', '', 'EXECUTED', '3.1.1');

– Release Database Lock
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as you can see, instead of

CREATE TABLE public.t (afield CHARACTER VARYING(256));

it generates

CREATE TABLE public.t (afield CHARACTER(256) varying);

Which, of course, can't be applied.