diff --git a/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeMapping.java b/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeMapping.java
index 3cb362ecc..6a7e77683 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeMapping.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeMapping.java
@@ -59,16 +59,17 @@ public class DbPlatformTypeMapping {
     put(DbType.TIMESTAMP);
     put(DbType.LONGVARBINARY);
     put(DbType.LONGVARCHAR);
-
-    put(DbType.VARBINARY, new DbPlatformType("varbinary", 255));
-    put(DbType.BINARY, new DbPlatformType("binary", 255));
-    put(DbType.REAL, new DbPlatformType("float")); // most commonly read maps to db float
-    put(DbType.DECIMAL, new DbPlatformType("decimal", 38));
-    put(DbType.VARCHAR, new DbPlatformType("varchar", 255));
-    put(DbType.CHAR, new DbPlatformType("char", 1));
+    // most commonly real maps to db float
+    put(DbType.REAL, new DbPlatformType("float"));
 
     if (logicalTypes) {
       // keep it logical for 2 layer DDL generation
+      put(DbType.VARCHAR, new DbPlatformType("varchar"));
+      put(DbType.DECIMAL, new DbPlatformType("decimal"));
+      put(DbType.VARBINARY, new DbPlatformType("varbinary"));
+      put(DbType.BINARY, new DbPlatformType("binary"));
+      put(DbType.CHAR, new DbPlatformType("char"));
+
       put(DbType.HSTORE, new DbPlatformType("hstore", false));
       put(DbType.JSON, new DbPlatformType("json", false));
       put(DbType.JSONB, new DbPlatformType("jsonb", false));
@@ -78,6 +79,12 @@ public class DbPlatformTypeMapping {
       put(DbType.UUID, UUID_NATIVE);
 
     } else {
+      put(DbType.VARCHAR, new DbPlatformType("varchar", 255));
+      put(DbType.DECIMAL, new DbPlatformType("decimal", 38));
+      put(DbType.VARBINARY, new DbPlatformType("varbinary", 255));
+      put(DbType.BINARY, new DbPlatformType("binary", 255));
+      put(DbType.CHAR, new DbPlatformType("char", 1));
+
       put(DbType.JSON, JSON_CLOB_PLACEHOLDER); // Postgres maps this to JSON
       put(DbType.JSONB, JSON_CLOB_PLACEHOLDER); // Postgres maps this to JSONB
       put(DbType.JSONCLOB, JSON_CLOB_PLACEHOLDER);
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeParser.java b/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeParser.java
index 14a1c60db..ec0d440b5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeParser.java
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ class DbPlatformTypeParser {
 
     int openPos = columnDefinition.indexOf('(');
     if (openPos == -1) {
-      return new DbPlatformType(columnDefinition);
+      return new DbPlatformType(columnDefinition, false);
     }
     int closePos = columnDefinition.indexOf(')', openPos);
     if (closePos == -1) {
-      return new DbPlatformType(columnDefinition);
+      return new DbPlatformType(columnDefinition, false);
     }
     try {
       int commaPos = columnDefinition.indexOf(',', openPos);
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class DbPlatformTypeParser {
         return new DbPlatformType(type, scale);
       }
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
-      return new DbPlatformType(columnDefinition);
+      return new DbPlatformType(columnDefinition, false);
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/ddlgeneration/platform/PlatformDdl.java b/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/ddlgeneration/platform/PlatformDdl.java
index e0e8b025c..460300bf6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/ddlgeneration/platform/PlatformDdl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/dbmigration/ddlgeneration/platform/PlatformDdl.java
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ public class PlatformDdl {
    * Set configuration options.
    */
   public void configure(ServerConfig serverConfig) {
-    platform.configure(serverConfig);
     historyDdl.configure(serverConfig, this);
     naming = serverConfig.getConstraintNaming();
   }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeParserTest.java b/src/test/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeParserTest.java
index bc2990515..45e5ceb18 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeParserTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DbPlatformTypeParserTest.java
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ public class DbPlatformTypeParserTest {
     assertEquals(type.getDefaultScale(), 0);
 
     assertEquals(type.renderType(0, 0), "text");
-    assertEquals(type.renderType(40, 0), "text(40)");
+    assertEquals(type.renderType(40, 0), "text");
   }
 
   @Test