diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 546c3124..3b7794f0 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ source 'https://rubygems.org'
 
 gem 'rails', "~> 5.2"
 gem 'rack-cors', "~> 1.0"
-gem 'pg', "~> 0.20"
+gem 'pg', "~> 1.5"
 gem 'responders', "~> 3.0"
 gem 'gelf'
 gem 'logstasher'
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 87370171..f30d5044 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ GEM
       faraday
       faraday-panoptes (~> 0.3.0)
       jwt (~> 1.5.0)
-    pg (0.21.0)
+    pg (1.5.8)
     pry (0.12.2)
       coderay (~> 1.1.0)
       method_source (~> 0.9.0)
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   logstasher
   newrelic_rpm
   panoptes-client (~> 0.3)
-  pg (~> 0.20)
+  pg (~> 1.5)
   pry-byebug (~> 3.6)
   pry-rails (~> 0.3)
   puma (~> 6.4)