diff --git a/docs/requirements_for_rtd.txt b/docs/requirements_for_rtd.txt
index bcfbac78ff..67f7843037 100644
--- a/docs/requirements_for_rtd.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements_for_rtd.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ numpy==1.16.4
 paramiko==2.6.0
 passlib==1.7.1
 pg8000<1.13.0
-pgtest==1.2.0
+pgtest==1.3.1
 pika==1.0.0
 plumpy==0.14.2
 psutil==5.5.1
diff --git a/setup.json b/setup.json
index 2e77f49924..50f2b80a43 100644
--- a/setup.json
+++ b/setup.json
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
     ],
     "testing": [
       "unittest2==1.1.0; python_version<'3.5'",
-      "pgtest==1.2.0",
+      "pgtest==1.3.1",
       "pg8000<1.13.0",
       "sqlalchemy-diff==0.1.3",
       "coverage==4.5.2",
@@ -218,4 +218,4 @@
   "scripts": [
     "bin/runaiida"
   ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}