diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0f42ace..896d61a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ arrow = "57"
 arrow-schema = "57"
 bytes = "1.11.1"
 chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["std"] }
-datafusion = { version = "52", default-features = false }
+datafusion = { version = "52" }
 futures = "0.3"
 pgwire = { version = "0.38", default-features = false }
 postgres-types = "0.2"
diff --git a/datafusion-postgres-cli/Cargo.toml b/datafusion-postgres-cli/Cargo.toml
index b0925e4..59692a8 100644
--- a/datafusion-postgres-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion-postgres-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ readme = "../README.md"
 rust-version.workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
-datafusion = { workspace = true, default-features = true, features = ["avro"] }
+datafusion = { workspace = true, features = ["avro"] }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
 datafusion-postgres = { path = "../datafusion-postgres", version = "0.15.0" }
 structopt = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }