diff --git a/lower-constraints.txt b/lower-constraints.txt
index 04af416aa660..5f64be28fbc4 100644
--- a/lower-constraints.txt
+++ b/lower-constraints.txt
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ pluggy==0.6.0
 ply==3.11
 prettytable==0.7.1
 psutil==3.2.2
-psycopg2==2.8
+psycopg2-binary==2.8
 py==1.5.2
 pyasn1==0.4.2
 pyasn1-modules==0.2.1
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 98b2a0e2bce2..9f695c612463 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ coverage!=4.4,>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 ddt>=1.2.1 # MIT
 fixtures>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 mock>=3.0.0 # BSD
-psycopg2>=2.8 # LGPL/ZPL
+psycopg2-binary>=2.8 # LGPL/ZPL
 PyMySQL>=0.8.0 # MIT License
 python-barbicanclient>=4.5.2 # Apache-2.0
 python-ironicclient>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0