diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index f2f0aa07b00033e1e0d8c59928402fe512419aac..96b30d614799a6541333466ab8759992bcb74e56 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ install_environment:
     - mkdir -p "${APT_STATE_LISTS}/partial"
     - mkdir -p "${APT_CACHE_ARCHIVES}/partial"
     - apt update -qy
-    - apt install -y apt-utils curl libgdal-dev
+    - apt install -y apt-utils curl postgresql postgresql-contrib libgdal-dev
     - export PGPASSWORD=$POSTGRES_PASSWORD
     - psql --username $POSTGRES_USER --host $HOST -d $POSTGRES_DB -c "ALTER ROLE anthology_django SET client_encoding TO 'utf8';"
     - psql --username $POSTGRES_USER --host $HOST -d $POSTGRES_DB -c "ALTER ROLE anthology_django SET default_transaction_isolation TO 'read committed';"