diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2b2bf6e83..55620ac1d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ openpyxl==3.1.2
 phply==1.2.6
 Pillow==10.1.0
 pip==23.3.1
-psycopg2==2.9.9
+psycopg[binary]==3.1.12
 Pygments==2.16.1
 pyparsing==3.1.1
 python-akismet==0.4.3