diff --git a/src/meson.build b/src/meson.build
index 9ad4e92..e622f23 100644
--- a/src/meson.build
+++ b/src/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 gtk_dep = dependency('gtk+-3.0', version: '>=3.0.0')
 # gmodule-export-2.0 is needed to connect the handlers
 gmodule_dep = dependency('gmodule-2.0', version: '>=2.0')
-libpq_dep = dependency('libpq')
+libpq_dep = dependency('libpq', version: '>=10.0')
 
 # this is how to link against a c lib
 #libsystemd_lib = meson.get_compiler('c').find_library('libsystemd')