diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b13dd20a..fe2e7585 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ google-cloud-pubsub
 google-cloud-firestore
 google-cloud-storage
 google-cloud-secret-manager
-psycopg2
+psycopg2-binary
 functions-framework
 jsonschema[format]
 requests
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 20fb38b1..0aff65b1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
         "functions-framework",
         "google-cloud-firestore",
         "google-cloud-secret-manager",
-        "psycopg2",
+        "psycopg2-binary",
         "jsonschema[format]",
         "requests",
         "pyyaml",