diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 67836aa..92094ec 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -3,13 +3,25 @@
 ## usage
 
 ```ts
-import { Kysely } from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/kysely/dist/esm/index.js";
+import { Pool } from "https://deno.land/x/postgres@v0.17.0/mod.ts";
+import { Kysely, Generated } from "https://esm.sh/kysely@0.23.4";
 import { PostgresDialect } from "https://deno.land/x/kysely_postgres/mod.ts";
 
-const db = new Kysely<{}>({
-  dialect: new PostgresDialect({
-    // ...
-  }),
+// Create a database pool with one connection.
+const pool = new Pool(
+  {
+    database: "postgres",
+    hostname: "localhost",
+    user: "postgres",
+    port: 54322,
+    password: Deno.env.get("DB_PASSWORD"),
+  },
+  1
+);
+
+// You'd create one of these when you start your app.
+const db = new Kysely<Database>({
+  dialect: new PostgresDialect({ pool }),
 });
 ```
 
diff --git a/src/deps/kysely.ts b/src/deps/kysely.ts
index 7f8a588..d88b389 100644
--- a/src/deps/kysely.ts
+++ b/src/deps/kysely.ts
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-export * from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/kysely/dist/esm/index.js";
-export * from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/kysely/dist/esm/util/stack-trace-utils.js";
+export * from "https://esm.sh/kysely@0.23.4";
+export * from "https://esm.sh/kysely@0.23.4/dist/esm/util/stack-trace-utils.js";
diff --git a/src/deps/postgres.ts b/src/deps/postgres.ts
index 3929b69..e374969 100644
--- a/src/deps/postgres.ts
+++ b/src/deps/postgres.ts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export * from "https://deno.land/x/postgres@v0.16.1/mod.ts";
+export * from "https://deno.land/x/postgres@v0.17.0/mod.ts";
diff --git a/src/postgres/postgres-dialect-config.ts b/src/postgres/postgres-dialect-config.ts
index e410724..294b534 100644
--- a/src/postgres/postgres-dialect-config.ts
+++ b/src/postgres/postgres-dialect-config.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
-import type { ClientOptions } from "../deps/postgres.ts";
+import type { Pool } from "../deps/postgres.ts";
 
-export type PostgresDialectConfig = ClientOptions;
+export interface PostgresDialectConfig {
+  pool: Pool | (() => Promise<Pool>);
+}
diff --git a/src/postgres/postgres-driver.ts b/src/postgres/postgres-driver.ts
index 95facb6..4be1f6b 100644
--- a/src/postgres/postgres-driver.ts
+++ b/src/postgres/postgres-driver.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { Pool } from "../deps/postgres.ts";
-import type { PoolClient, ClientOptions } from "../deps/postgres.ts";
+import type { PoolClient } from "../deps/postgres.ts";
+import { PostgresDialectConfig } from "./postgres-dialect-config.ts";
 import { CompiledQuery, PostgresCursorConstructor } from "../deps/kysely.ts";
 import type {
   DatabaseConnection,
@@ -12,18 +13,19 @@ import { extendStackTrace } from "../deps/kysely.ts";
 const PRIVATE_RELEASE_METHOD = Symbol();
 
 export class PostgresDriver implements Driver {
-  readonly #config: ClientOptions;
+  readonly #config: PostgresDialectConfig;
   readonly #connections = new WeakMap<PoolClient, DatabaseConnection>();
   #pool: Pool | null = null;
 
-  constructor(config: ClientOptions) {
+  constructor(config: PostgresDialectConfig) {
     this.#config = config;
   }
 
   async init(): Promise<void> {
-    // TODO: size is required unlike the node `pg` module.
-    // Need to figure out what is a good value to use here
-    this.#pool = new Pool(this.#config, 1);
+    this.#pool =
+      typeof this.#config.pool === "function"
+        ? await this.#config.pool()
+        : this.#config.pool;
   }
 
   async acquireConnection(): Promise<DatabaseConnection> {