diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-nix.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-nix.nix
index 15565a3f4398..13a384cc0886 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-nix.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-nix.nix
@@ -1654,16 +1654,7 @@ builtins.intersectAttrs super {
     librarySystemDepends = (drv.librarySystemDepends or [ ]) ++ [ pkgs.libpq ];
   }) super.postgresql-libpq-configure;
 
-  postgresql-libpq-pkgconfig =
-    addPkgconfigDepend
-      # Building postgresql-libpq with PG17 in pkgsStatic works fine, but downstream can't link against it with:
-      # > /nix/store/7ir63m9sbqzflf3yfynn45i109w6a5iz-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-binutils-2.43.1/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-ld:
-      #   /nix/store/vj7fwxbyvs15zrjbb9vafxbwmc05hl70-postgresql-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-17.2-dev/lib/libpq.a(fe-connect.o):
-      #   in function `PQsetClientEncoding':
-      # > (.text.PQsetClientEncoding+0xdf): undefined reference to `pg_encoding_to_char'
-      # Falling back to v16 to work around it.
-      (if pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic then pkgs.postgresql_16 else pkgs.libpq)
-      super.postgresql-libpq-pkgconfig;
+  postgresql-libpq-pkgconfig = addPkgconfigDepend pkgs.libpq super.postgresql-libpq-pkgconfig;
 
   # Test failure is related to a GHC implementation detail of primitives and doesn't
   # cause actual problems in dependent packages, see https://github.com/lehins/pvar/issues/4