diff --git a/requirements-py2.txt b/requirements-py2.txt
index d57df720..fde9c79a 100644
--- a/requirements-py2.txt
+++ b/requirements-py2.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 boto
 dnspython
 mock
-psycopg2
+psycopg2>=2.6.1
 PyYAML
 requests
 six >= 1.7
diff --git a/requirements-py3.txt b/requirements-py3.txt
index 0fd9dfb3..cc00965b 100644
--- a/requirements-py3.txt
+++ b/requirements-py3.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 boto
 mock
 dnspython3
-psycopg2
+psycopg2>=2.6.1
 PyYAML
 requests
 six