diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 122a2c0..e1de720 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ axum = "0.7"
 askama = "0.12"
 askama_axum = "0.4"
 tower-http = { version = "0.5", features = ["fs"] }
-r2d2_postgres = "0.18"
-deadpool-r2d2 = {version = "0.3", features = ["rt_tokio_1"]}
-deadpool = "0.10"
+deadpool-postgres = { version = "0.12", features = ["rt_tokio_1"] }
+tokio-postgres = { version = "0.7", features = ["with-chrono-0_4"] }
 thiserror = "1.0"
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diff --git a/src/db.rs b/src/db.rs
index e802078..0d6b085 100644
--- a/src/db.rs
+++ b/src/db.rs
@@ -1,47 +1,31 @@
 use {
-    deadpool, deadpool_r2d2::Runtime, thiserror::Error,
+    deadpool_postgres::{CreatePoolError, Pool, Runtime},
+    thiserror::Error,
+    tokio_postgres::NoTls,
 };
 
-type PgManager = deadpool_r2d2::Manager<
-    r2d2_postgres::PostgresConnectionManager<r2d2_postgres::postgres::NoTls>,
->;
-type PgPool = deadpool_r2d2::Pool<PgManager>;
-
 #[derive(Error, Debug)]
 pub enum Error {
     #[error("Could not initialize DB connection pool.")]
-    ConnectionPoolError(#[from] deadpool::managed::BuildError),
-    #[error("Error with Postgres database")]
-    PostrgesError(#[from] r2d2_postgres::postgres::Error)
+    ConnectionPoolError(#[from] CreatePoolError),
 }
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Database {
-    pg_pool: PgPool,
+    pg_pool: Pool,
 }
 
 impl Database {
-    pub fn create_pool(connection_url: &str, max_size: usize) -> Result<Database, Error> {
-        let pg_config: r2d2_postgres::postgres::Config = connection_url.parse()?;
-        let r2d2_manager = r2d2_postgres::PostgresConnectionManager::new(
-            pg_config,
-            r2d2_postgres::postgres::NoTls,
-        );
-        let manager = PgManager::new(r2d2_manager, Runtime::Tokio1);
-        let pg_pool = PgPool::builder(manager).max_size(max_size).build()?;
+    pub fn create_pool(connection_url: &str) -> Result<Database, Error> {
+        let mut config = deadpool_postgres::Config::new();
+        config.url = Some(connection_url.to_string());
+        let pg_pool = config.create_pool(Some(Runtime::Tokio1), NoTls)?;
         Ok(Database { pg_pool })
     }
 
     pub async fn log_num_users(&self) -> usize {
-        self.pg_pool
-            .get()
-            .await
-            .unwrap()
-            .interact(|conn| {
-                let results = conn.query("SELECT * FROM users;", &[]).unwrap();
-                results.len()
-            })
-            .await
-            .unwrap()
+        let client = self.pg_pool.get().await.unwrap();
+        let results = client.query("SELECT * FROM users;", &[]).await.unwrap();
+        results.len()
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 074fa66..928765a 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ fn main() {
 async fn localhub_main() -> Result<(), Error> {
     let config = get_config()?;
 
-    let db_pool = Database::create_pool(&config.database_url, 2)?;
+    let db_pool = Database::create_pool(&config.database_url)?;
 
     let app = app::routes()
         .with_state(db_pool)