diff --git a/ceilometer/tests/db.py b/ceilometer/tests/db.py
index 2cba7f2f77..f5e037cf4e 100644
--- a/ceilometer/tests/db.py
+++ b/ceilometer/tests/db.py
@@ -63,13 +63,13 @@ class MongoDbManager(fixtures.Fixture):
         }
 
 
-class MySQLDbManager(fixtures.Fixture):
+class SQLManager(fixtures.Fixture):
 
     def __init__(self, url):
         self._url = url
 
     def setUp(self):
-        super(MySQLDbManager, self).setUp()
+        super(SQLManager, self).setUp()
         self.connection = storage.get_connection(
             self.url, 'ceilometer.metering.storage')
         self.alarm_connection = storage.get_connection(
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ class TestBase(testscenarios.testcase.WithScenarios, test_base.BaseTestCase):
 
     DRIVER_MANAGERS = {
         'mongodb': MongoDbManager,
-        'mysql': MySQLDbManager,
+        'mysql': SQLManager,
+        'postgresql': SQLManager,
         'db2': MongoDbManager,
         'sqlite': SQLiteManager,
         'hbase': HBaseManager,
@@ -222,7 +223,7 @@ class MixinTestsWithBackendScenarios(object):
         ('sqlite', {'db_url': 'sqlite://'}),
     ]
 
-    for db in ('MONGODB', 'MYSQL', 'HBASE', 'DB2'):
+    for db in ('MONGODB', 'MYSQL', 'PGSQL', 'HBASE', 'DB2'):
         if os.environ.get('CEILOMETER_TEST_%s_URL' % db):
             scenarios.append(
                 (db.lower(), {'db_url': os.environ.get(
diff --git a/setup-test-env-postgresql.sh b/setup-test-env-postgresql.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ddc3ca1f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup-test-env-postgresql.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+source functions.sh
+
+if [ "$1" = "--coverage" ]; then
+	COVERAGE_ARG="$1"
+	shift
+fi
+
+#export PATH=${PATH:+$PATH:}/sbin:/usr/sbin
+
+check_for_cmd pg_config
+
+# Start PostgreSQL process for tests
+PGSQL_DATA=`mktemp -d /tmp/CEILO-PGSQL-XXXXX`
+trap "clean_exit ${PGSQL_DATA}" EXIT
+PGSQL_PATH=`pg_config --bindir`
+${PGSQL_PATH}/initdb ${PGSQL_DATA}
+mkfifo ${PGSQL_DATA}/out
+${PGSQL_PATH}/postgres -N 100 -F -k ${PGSQL_DATA} -D ${PGSQL_DATA} -p 9823 &> ${PGSQL_DATA}/out &
+# Wait for PostgreSQL to start listening to connections
+wait_for_line "database system is ready to accept connections" ${PGSQL_DATA}/out
+export CEILOMETER_TEST_PGSQL_URL="postgresql:///?host=${PGSQL_DATA}&port=9823&dbname=template1"
+
+# Yield execution to venv command
+$*
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 1fb07126cc..04b1a0cab5 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ MySQL-python
 # Docs Requirements
 oslosphinx>=2.2.0  # Apache-2.0
 oslotest>=1.1.0  # Apache-2.0
+psycopg2
 pymongo>=2.5
 python-subunit>=0.0.18
 sphinx>=1.1.2,!=1.2.0,<1.3
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 6e2ef3fe48..63a75fd8f4 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [tox]
 minversion = 1.6
 skipsdist = True
-envlist = py26,py27,py27-mysql,py33,pep8
+envlist = py26,py27,py33,py-mysql,py-pgsql,pep8
 
 [testenv]
 deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements.txt
@@ -16,10 +16,14 @@ commands =
 downloadcache = {toxworkdir}/_download
 whitelist_externals = bash
 
-[testenv:py27-mysql]
+[testenv:py-mysql]
 commands =
    bash -x {toxinidir}/setup-test-env-mysql.sh python setup.py testr --slowest --testr-args="{posargs}"
 
+[testenv:py-pgsql]
+commands =
+   bash -x {toxinidir}/setup-test-env-postgresql.sh python setup.py testr --slowest --testr-args="{posargs}"
+
 [testenv:py33]
 deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements-py3.txt
        -r{toxinidir}/test-requirements-py3.txt