diff --git a/src/main/java/org/sqlite/jdbc3/JDBC3ResultSet.java b/src/main/java/org/sqlite/jdbc3/JDBC3ResultSet.java
index ab5efc9811..6642632e32 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/sqlite/jdbc3/JDBC3ResultSet.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/sqlite/jdbc3/JDBC3ResultSet.java
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ public int getColumnType(int col) throws SQLException {
 
         if (valueType == SQLITE_TEXT || valueType == SQLITE_NULL) {
             if ("CHARACTER".equals(typeName) || "NCHAR".equals(typeName) ||
-                "NATIVE CHARACTER".equals(typeName)) {
+                "NATIVE CHARACTER".equals(typeName) || "CHAR".equals(typeName)) {
                 return Types.CHAR;
             }
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/sqlite/RSMetaDataTest.java b/src/test/java/org/sqlite/RSMetaDataTest.java
index 0b066bd0ed..5cccd6397f 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/sqlite/RSMetaDataTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/sqlite/RSMetaDataTest.java
@@ -78,18 +78,18 @@ public void columnTypes() throws SQLException
             "col17 CLOB, col18 BLOB, col19 REAL, col20 DOUBLE, " +
             "col21 DOUBLE PRECISION, col22 FLOAT, col23 NUMERIC, " +
             "col24 DECIMAL(10,5), col25 BOOLEAN, col26 DATE, col27 DATETIME, " +
-            "col28 TIMESTAMP)"
+            "col28 TIMESTAMP, col29 CHAR(70))"
         );
         // insert empty data into table otherwise getColumnType returns null
         stat.executeUpdate(
             "insert into tbl values (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9," +
             "'c', 'varchar', 'varying', 'n', 'n','nvarchar', 'text', 'clob'," +
-            "null, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 0, 12345, 123456, 0)");
+            "null, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 0, 12345, 123456, 0, 'char')");
         meta = stat.executeQuery(
             "select col1, col2, col3, col4, col5, col6, col7, col8, col9, " +
             "col10, col11, col12, col13, col14, col15, col16, col17, col18, " +
             "col19, col20, col21, col22, col23, col24, col25, col26, col27, " +
-            "col28, " +
+            "col28, col29, " +
             "cast(col1 as boolean) from tbl"
         ).getMetaData();
 
@@ -126,8 +126,9 @@ public void columnTypes() throws SQLException
         assertEquals(Types.DATE, meta.getColumnType(27));
 
         assertEquals(Types.TIMESTAMP, meta.getColumnType(28));
+        assertEquals(Types.CHAR, meta.getColumnType(29));
 
-        assertEquals(Types.BOOLEAN, meta.getColumnType(29));
+        assertEquals(Types.BOOLEAN, meta.getColumnType(30));
 
         assertEquals(10, meta.getPrecision(24));
         assertEquals(5, meta.getScale(24));