diff --git a/treebase-core/src/main/resources/TBASE2_POSTGRES_CREATION.sql b/treebase-core/src/main/resources/TBASE2_POSTGRES_CREATION.sql
index 01bf2b5a..f48925f5 100644
--- a/treebase-core/src/main/resources/TBASE2_POSTGRES_CREATION.sql
+++ b/treebase-core/src/main/resources/TBASE2_POSTGRES_CREATION.sql
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ CREATE TABLE citation
   keywords character varying(255),
   pages character varying(255),
   publishyear integer,
-  published smallint,
+  published boolean,
   title character varying(500),
   issue character varying(255),
   journal character varying(255),
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ CREATE TABLE matrix
   gapsymbol character(1),
   missingsymbol character(1),
   nexusfilename character varying(255),
-  published smallint,
+  published boolean,
   symbols character varying(255),
   title character varying(255),
   "nchar" integer,
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ CREATE TABLE phylotree
   ntax integer,
   newickstring text,
   nexusfilename character varying(255),
-  published smallint,
+  published boolean,
   rootedtree smallint,
   title character varying(255),
   rootnode_id bigint,