diff --git a/rattail_demo/web/app.py b/rattail_demo/web/app.py
index 38ea47d..b81b31a 100644
--- a/rattail_demo/web/app.py
+++ b/rattail_demo/web/app.py
@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ def main(global_config, **settings):
     """
     This function returns a Pyramid WSGI application.
     """
-    # set some defaults for PostgreSQL
-    app.provide_postgresql_settings(settings)
-
     # prefer demo templates over tailbone
     settings.setdefault('mako.directories', ['rattail_demo.web:templates',
                                              'tailbone:templates',])
@@ -28,7 +25,4 @@ def main(global_config, **settings):
     pyramid_config.include('rattail_demo.web.subscribers')
     pyramid_config.include('rattail_demo.web.views')
 
-    # configure PostgreSQL some more
-    app.configure_postgresql(pyramid_config)
-
     return pyramid_config.make_wsgi_app()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2259dd2..18e4bc7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -43,16 +43,6 @@ requires = [
     #
     # package                           # low                   high
 
-    # TODO: Pyramid 1.9 looks like it breaks us..? playing it safe for now..
-    'pyramid<1.9',                      # 1.3b2                 1.8.3
-
-    # apparently 2.0 removes the retry support, in which case we then need
-    # pyramid_retry .. but that requires pyramid 1.9 ...
-    'pyramid_tm<2.0',                   # 0.3                   1.1.1
-
-    # TODO: why do we need to cap this?  breaks tailbone.db zope stuff somehow
-    'zope.sqlalchemy<1.0',              # 0.7                   0.7.7
-
     'invoke',                           # 0.22.1
     'psycopg2',                         # 2.6.2
     'rattail-corepos',                  # 0.1.0