diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 731c1a1..e56eb56 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   it back in. With the permissions the startup check and invite URL ask for,
   every new ticket failed with *Missing Access* and the user got "an internal
   error has occurred". The bot now adds an overwrite for itself.
+- **Transcripts work on PostgreSQL.** pg returns `BIGINT` columns as strings,
+  so the ticket timestamps reached the transcript as text and every transcript
+  failed with `RangeError: Invalid time value` (no file in the log channel,
+  nothing stored). The PostgreSQL pool now returns `BIGINT` as a number, like
+  SQLite and MySQL do.
 
 ### Added
 
diff --git a/src/database/drivers/postgres.js b/src/database/drivers/postgres.js
index cfb23b4..6f39051 100644
--- a/src/database/drivers/postgres.js
+++ b/src/database/drivers/postgres.js
@@ -7,9 +7,20 @@
  * @param {{ options: object }} descriptor
  */
 function createPostgresDriver(descriptor) {
-  const { Pool } = require('pg');
+  const { Pool, types } = require('pg');
   let pool;
 
+  // pg returns BIGINT (int8, OID 20) as a string, SQLite and mysql2 return a
+  // number. Every BIGINT column here is a millisecond timestamp or a row id,
+  // well inside Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (Discord ids are VARCHAR), so parse
+  // them as numbers for this pool only. As strings, new Date(created_at) was
+  // an Invalid Date and every transcript failed to build.
+  const INT8_OID = 20;
+  const typeParsers = {
+    getTypeParser: (oid, format) =>
+      (oid === INT8_OID && format !== 'binary') ? Number : types.getTypeParser(oid, format),
+  };
+
   const norm = (params) => (params || []).map(p => (p === undefined ? null : p));
 
   // ?  →  $1, $2, $3 …
@@ -22,7 +33,7 @@ function createPostgresDriver(descriptor) {
     async connect() {
       // connectionTimeoutMillis: without it a connect to an unreachable host can
       // hang indefinitely instead of failing the query.
-      pool = new Pool({ connectionTimeoutMillis: 10_000, ...descriptor.options, max: 10 });
+      pool = new Pool({ connectionTimeoutMillis: 10_000, ...descriptor.options, max: 10, types: typeParsers });
 
       // An idle client that loses its connection (Postgres restart, network blip)
       // emits 'error' on the pool. Unhandled, that event crashes the process; the
diff --git a/tests/postgres-int8.test.js b/tests/postgres-int8.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e6c46c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/postgres-int8.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/**
+ * pg returns BIGINT as a string. The timestamps are BIGINT, and a string
+ * timestamp is an Invalid Date (every transcript failed on PostgreSQL), so the
+ * driver's pool parses int8 as a number. No server needed: pg is replaced
+ * with a fake that records the pool config.
+ */
+const test = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
+
+const realPg = require('pg');
+let poolConfig;
+class FakePool {
+  constructor(config) { poolConfig = config; }
+  on() {}
+  async connect() { return { release() {} }; }
+}
+require.cache[require.resolve('pg')].exports = { ...realPg, Pool: FakePool };
+
+const { createPostgresDriver } = require('../src/database/drivers/postgres');
+
+test('BIGINT (int8) comes back as a number, other types are unchanged', async () => {
+  await createPostgresDriver({ options: {} }).connect();
+
+  const parse = (oid) => poolConfig.types.getTypeParser(oid, 'text');
+  assert.equal(parse(20)('1792781224429'), 1792781224429);
+  assert.ok(!Number.isNaN(new Date(parse(20)('1792781224429')).getTime()));
+  // NUMERIC (AVG results) and TEXT keep pg's defaults.
+  assert.equal(parse(1700)('4.50'), '4.50');
+  assert.equal(parse(25)('1558357487801999400'), '1558357487801999400');
+});