diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/CockroachDialect.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/CockroachDialect.java
index 4eb681046b2a..d5640a29b8ed 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/CockroachDialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/CockroachDialect.java
@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ protected String columnType(int sqlTypeCode) {
 
 			case BINARY:
 			case VARBINARY:
-				return "bytes($l)";
 			case BLOB:
 				return "bytes";