diff --git a/functions.go b/functions.go
index e406f16..dbde06d 100644
--- a/functions.go
+++ b/functions.go
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/initialcapacity/ai-starter/pkg/dbsupport"
 	"github.com/initialcapacity/ai-starter/pkg/feedsupport"
 	"github.com/initialcapacity/ai-starter/pkg/websupport"
-	_ "github.com/lib/pq"
 	"github.com/tiktoken-go/tokenizer"
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 51c632b..8a855de 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-go v1.8.1
 	github.com/cloudevents/sdk-go/v2 v2.15.2
 	github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/v4 v4.17.1
-	github.com/lib/pq v1.10.9
+	github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.5.4
 	github.com/pgvector/pgvector-go v0.1.1
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.8.4
 	github.com/tiktoken-go/tokenizer v0.1.0
@@ -22,13 +22,19 @@ require (
 	github.com/google/uuid v1.4.0 // indirect
 	github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.1.0 // indirect
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.1.1 // indirect
+	github.com/jackc/pgpassfile v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/jackc/pgservicefile v0.0.0-20221227161230-091c0ba34f0a // indirect
+	github.com/jackc/puddle/v2 v2.2.1 // indirect
 	github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.10 // indirect
+	github.com/lib/pq v1.10.9 // indirect
 	github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180228061459-e0a39a4cb421 // indirect
 	github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v0.0.0-20180701023420-4b7aa43c6742 // indirect
 	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/atomic v1.7.0 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/multierr v1.1.0 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/zap v1.10.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/crypto v0.20.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sync v0.5.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/text v0.14.0 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 5c2cd60..2029e26 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1014,6 +1014,8 @@ github.com/jackc/pgservicefile v0.0.0-20221227161230-091c0ba34f0a h1:bbPeKD0xmW/
 github.com/jackc/pgservicefile v0.0.0-20221227161230-091c0ba34f0a/go.mod h1:5TJZWKEWniPve33vlWYSoGYefn3gLQRzjfDlhSJ9ZKM=
 github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.5.4 h1:Xp2aQS8uXButQdnCMWNmvx6UysWQQC+u1EoizjguY+8=
 github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.5.4/go.mod h1:ez9gk+OAat140fv9ErkZDYFWmXLfV+++K0uAOiwgm1A=
+github.com/jackc/puddle/v2 v2.2.1 h1:RhxXJtFG022u4ibrCSMSiu5aOq1i77R3OHKNJj77OAk=
+github.com/jackc/puddle/v2 v2.2.1/go.mod h1:vriiEXHvEE654aYKXXjOvZM39qJ0q+azkZFrfEOc3H4=
 github.com/jinzhu/inflection v1.0.0 h1:K317FqzuhWc8YvSVlFMCCUb36O/S9MCKRDI7QkRKD/E=
 github.com/jinzhu/inflection v1.0.0/go.mod h1:h+uFLlag+Qp1Va5pdKtLDYj+kHp5pxUVkryuEj+Srlc=
 github.com/joho/godotenv v1.3.0 h1:Zjp+RcGpHhGlrMbJzXTrZZPrWj+1vfm90La1wgB6Bhc=
@@ -1354,6 +1356,8 @@ golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20220929204114-8fcdb60fdcc0/go.mod h1:RxMgew5VJxzue5/jJ
 golang.org/x/sync v0.1.0/go.mod h1:RxMgew5VJxzue5/jJTE5uejpjVlOe/izrB70Jof72aM=
 golang.org/x/sync v0.2.0/go.mod h1:RxMgew5VJxzue5/jJTE5uejpjVlOe/izrB70Jof72aM=
 golang.org/x/sync v0.3.0/go.mod h1:FU7BRWz2tNW+3quACPkgCx/L+uEAv1htQ0V83Z9Rj+Y=
+golang.org/x/sync v0.5.0 h1:60k92dhOjHxJkrqnwsfl8KuaHbn/5dl0lUPUklKo3qE=
+golang.org/x/sync v0.5.0/go.mod h1:Czt+wKu1gCyEFDUtn0jG5QVvpJ6rzVqr5aXyt9drQfk=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20180830151530-49385e6e1522/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190215142949-d0b11bdaac8a/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190312061237-fead79001313/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
diff --git a/pkg/dbsupport/connection.go b/pkg/dbsupport/connection.go
index 5a89a61..44a8f11 100644
--- a/pkg/dbsupport/connection.go
+++ b/pkg/dbsupport/connection.go
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ package dbsupport
 import (
 	"database/sql"
 	"fmt"
-	_ "github.com/lib/pq"
+	_ "github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/stdlib"
 	"log"
 )
 
 func CreateConnection(databaseUrl string) *sql.DB {
-	db, err := sql.Open("postgres", databaseUrl)
+	db, err := sql.Open("pgx", databaseUrl)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(fmt.Errorf("unable to connect to database: %w", err))
 	}