diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 746ebe9..3a27633 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 services:
  - redis-server
 
+addons:
+ postgresql: "9.3"
+
 # The following enables several GHC versions to be tested; often it's enough to test only against the last release in a major GHC version. Feel free to omit lines listings versions you don't need/want testing for.
 env:
  #- CABALVER=1.16 GHCVER=6.12.3
diff --git a/serversession-backend-persistent/tests/Main.hs b/serversession-backend-persistent/tests/Main.hs
index 0de3e36..e71acbb 100644
--- a/serversession-backend-persistent/tests/Main.hs
+++ b/serversession-backend-persistent/tests/Main.hs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ P.mkMigrate "migrateAll" (serverSessionDefs (Proxy :: Proxy SessionMap))
 
 main :: IO ()
 main = hspec $
-  forM_ [ ("PostgreSQL", createPostgresqlPool "host=localhost user=test dbname=test password=test" 20)
+  forM_ [ ("PostgreSQL", createPostgresqlPool "user=test dbname=test password=test" 20)
         , ("SQLite",     createSqlitePool "test.db" 1) ] $
     \(rdbms, createPool) ->
   describe ("SqlStorage on " ++ rdbms) $ do