Using Postgres JBDC drivers more recent than 8.1-415 doesn't work

if a more recent postgres JBDC driver is used then the following error is thrown and the Job Scheduler terminates:

ERROR SCHEDULER-360 Error when accessing database table SCHEDULER_ORDERS [SOS-1343 Datensatz Record_type(7 Felder) wird mit dem Feld distributed_next_time String0(2147483647) offset=(ohne Offset?) zu groß [jdbc -id=spooler -class=org.postgresql.Driver jdbc:postgresql://xxx/xxx -user=xxx -read-transaction %native select "ID", "PRIORITY", "STATE", "STATE_TEXT", "INITIAL_STATE", "TITLE", "CREATED_TIME", to_char(SCHEDULER_ORDERS."DISTRIBUTED_NEXT_TIME",'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') as distributed_next_time from SCHEDULER_ORDERS where "SPOOLER_ID"='xxx....]