[Subtask] Complete V3 type compatibility for the PostgreSQL catalog
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### Describe the subtask
Complete and document the five-family compatibility contract for PostgreSQL.
**Compatibility outcomes**
- **Nanosecond timestamps:** Reject precision `> 6`; PostgreSQL cannot preserve nanoseconds faithfully.
- **Variant:** Reject because `json` and `jsonb` do not implement the full Variant contract.
- **Unknown/Null:** Reject.
- **Geometry:** Reject writes until PostGIS subtype and SRID metadata can be recovered faithfully.
- **Geography:** Reject writes until PostGIS subtype and SRID metadata plus Gravitino edge-algorithm semantics can be recovered faithfully.
**Acceptance**
- Reproduce all five families through the connector's public create/conversion path and its alter/load paths where supported.
- A supported mapping must round-trip without losing type identity or parameters.
- An unsupported mapping must return `IllegalArgumentException` before external metadata mutation; no fallback to a narrower or opaque type is allowed.
- Cover nested types where the connector supports complex columns.
- Add focused converter/operation tests and an integration or no-side-effect test appropriate to the connector.
- Update the connector documentation with a five-family compatibility matrix and rejection rationale.
- Keep implementation commits atomic by connector and type family.
**Connector-specific verification**
Keep native JSON and PostGIS reads explicit as external types. Reproduce converter, SQL-generation, and Docker create/no-table paths, proving every rejection occurs before SQL.
**Documentation**
`docs/jdbc-postgresql-catalog.md`
### Parent issue
#12056
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