diff --git a/bindep.txt b/bindep.txt
index 5ed1824863..01b128cbcc 100644
--- a/bindep.txt
+++ b/bindep.txt
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ python3-devel [platform:rpm test]
 build-essential [platform:dpkg test]
 libssl-dev [platform:dpkg test]
 # these are needed by infra for python-* jobs
+libpq-dev [platform:dpkg test]
 postgresql
 postgresql-client [platform:dpkg]
 # postgresql-devel [platform:rpm]
diff --git a/lower-constraints.txt b/lower-constraints.txt
index effe77bc6a..cb83f1de9f 100644
--- a/lower-constraints.txt
+++ b/lower-constraints.txt
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ pika==0.10.0
 Pillow==5.0.0
 prettytable==0.7.2
 psutil==3.2.2
-psycopg2==2.6.2
+psycopg2==2.7.3
 pycadf==2.7.0
 pycodestyle==2.3.1
 pycparser==2.18
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 80ff780353..373d2a4da9 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ PyMySQL>=0.7.6 # MIT License
 iso8601>=0.1.11 # MIT
 oslotest>=3.2.0 # Apache-2.0
 stestr>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
-psycopg2>=2.6.2 # LGPL/ZPL
+psycopg2>=2.7.3 # LGPL/ZPL
 testtools>=2.2.0 # MIT
 testresources>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testscenarios>=0.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD