diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b8c80cbadaa865..5548fa5c074736 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1800,24 +1800,14 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "bb8"
-version = "0.9.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "212d8b8e1a22743d9241575c6ba822cf9c8fef34771c86ab7e477a4fbfd254e5"
-dependencies = [
- "futures-util",
- "parking_lot 0.12.1",
- "tokio",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "bb8-postgres"
-version = "0.9.0"
+version = "0.8.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e570e6557cd0f88d28d32afa76644873271a70dc22656df565b2021c4036aa9c"
+checksum = "56ac82c42eb30889b5c4ee4763a24b8c566518171ebea648cd7e3bc532c60680"
 dependencies = [
- "bb8 0.9.0",
+ "async-trait",
+ "bb8",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-postgres",
 ]
@@ -3777,7 +3767,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "fcb799bb6f8ca6a794462125d7b8983b0c86e6c93a33a9c55934a4a5de4409d3"
 dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
- "bb8 0.8.5",
+ "bb8",
  "diesel",
  "futures-util",
  "scoped-futures",
@@ -13968,7 +13958,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
  "axum 0.7.5",
  "backoff",
- "bb8 0.8.5",
+ "bb8",
  "bcs",
  "bytes",
  "cached",
@@ -14080,7 +14070,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
  "axum 0.7.5",
  "backoff",
- "bb8 0.8.5",
+ "bb8",
  "chrono",
  "clap",
  "diesel",
@@ -14909,7 +14899,7 @@ name = "sui-pg-db"
 version = "1.42.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "bb8 0.8.5",
+ "bb8",
  "clap",
  "diesel",
  "diesel-async",
@@ -15144,7 +15134,7 @@ name = "sui-rpc-benchmark"
 version = "1.42.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "bb8 0.9.0",
+ "bb8",
  "bb8-postgres",
  "clap",
  "dashmap",
diff --git a/crates/sui-rpc-benchmark/Cargo.toml b/crates/sui-rpc-benchmark/Cargo.toml
index c34c2f9753a6f8..6e190f32639784 100644
--- a/crates/sui-rpc-benchmark/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/sui-rpc-benchmark/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ tracing.workspace = true
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
 url.workspace = true
 tokio-postgres = "0.7.12"
-bb8 = "0.9.0"
-bb8-postgres = "0.9.0"
+bb8 = "0.8.5"
+bb8-postgres = "0.8.0"
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "sui-rpc-benchmark"