diff --git a/dbptk-modules/dbptk-module-postgresql/src/main/java/com/databasepreservation/modules/postgresql/in/PostgreSQLJDBCDatatypeImporter.java b/dbptk-modules/dbptk-module-postgresql/src/main/java/com/databasepreservation/modules/postgresql/in/PostgreSQLJDBCDatatypeImporter.java
index aa05055a..c47caf5f 100644
--- a/dbptk-modules/dbptk-module-postgresql/src/main/java/com/databasepreservation/modules/postgresql/in/PostgreSQLJDBCDatatypeImporter.java
+++ b/dbptk-modules/dbptk-module-postgresql/src/main/java/com/databasepreservation/modules/postgresql/in/PostgreSQLJDBCDatatypeImporter.java
@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ protected Type getNumericType(String typeName, int columnSize, int decimalDigits
     // The maximum allowed precision when explicitly specified in the type
     // declaration is 1000, so if we find more than that it means that this type was
     // declared without precision nor scale
+
+    //20240626 alindo: when upgrading the conector to version 42.7.3 it sets the data type
+    // scale and precision to 0 when they are not specified which is against SIARD specification
+    // https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/issues/2188
     if (columnSize == 0) {
       type.setSql99TypeName("NUMERIC", NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION_NUMBER, NUMERIC_MAX_SCALE_NUMBER);
       type.setSql2008TypeName("NUMERIC", NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION_NUMBER, NUMERIC_MAX_SCALE_NUMBER);