diff --git a/pkg/tsdb/postgres/postgres.go b/pkg/tsdb/postgres/postgres.go
index 56d3fcc9460..a8c96d8119c 100644
--- a/pkg/tsdb/postgres/postgres.go
+++ b/pkg/tsdb/postgres/postgres.go
@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ func (e PostgresQueryEndpoint) transformToTable(query *tsdb.Query, rows *core.Ro
 
 	rowLimit := 1000000
 	rowCount := 0
+	timeIndex := -1
+
+	// check if there is a column named time
+	for i, col := range columnNames {
+		switch col {
+		case "time":
+			timeIndex = i
+		}
+	}
 
 	for ; rows.Next(); rowCount++ {
 		if rowCount > rowLimit {
@@ -89,6 +98,15 @@ func (e PostgresQueryEndpoint) transformToTable(query *tsdb.Query, rows *core.Ro
 			return err
 		}
 
+		// convert column named time to unix timestamp to make
+		// native datetime postgres types work in annotation queries
+		if timeIndex != -1 {
+			switch value := values[timeIndex].(type) {
+			case time.Time:
+				values[timeIndex] = float64(value.UnixNano() / 1e9)
+			}
+		}
+
 		table.Rows = append(table.Rows, values)
 	}