diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index babf456d5712..6ed2a1874d01 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -2479,6 +2479,17 @@ self: super: {
   # unbreak with tasty-quickcheck 0.11, can be dropped for Stackage LTS >= 23.9
   text-builder = doDistribute self.text-builder_0_6_7_3;
 
+  postgres-websockets = lib.pipe super.postgres-websockets [
+    (addTestToolDepends [ pkgs.postgresql pkgs.postgresqlTestHook ])
+    (dontCheckIf pkgs.postgresqlTestHook.meta.broken)
+    (overrideCabal {
+      preCheck = ''
+        export postgresqlEnableTCP=1
+        export PGDATABASE=postgres_ws_test
+      '';
+    })
+  ];
+
   postgrest = lib.pipe
     (super.postgrest.overrideScope (self: super: {
       # 2025-01-19: Upstream is stuck at hasql < 1.7
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/broken.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/broken.yaml
index b5565e0f9823..e17ed3711182 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/broken.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/broken.yaml
@@ -4496,7 +4496,6 @@ broken-packages:
   - postgresql-typed-lifted # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233215141 at 2023-09-02
   - postgres-tmp # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233258685 at 2023-09-02
   - postgrest-ws # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233247807 at 2023-09-02
-  - postgres-websockets # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233199923 at 2023-09-02
   - postie # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233259075 at 2023-09-02
   - postmark-streams # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233233210 at 2023-09-02
   - postmaster # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233258599 at 2023-09-02
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml
index cdffe605960d..4944e0d982c5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml
@@ -677,6 +677,7 @@ package-maintainers:
     - warp-systemd
     - amazonka
   wolfgangwalther:
+    - postgres-websockets
     - postgrest
 
 unsupported-platforms:
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
index d94ec23b53f2..a53447c28042 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
@@ -248091,9 +248091,7 @@ self: {
        ];
        description = "Middleware to map LISTEN/NOTIFY messages to Websockets";
        license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
-       hydraPlatforms = lib.platforms.none;
        mainProgram = "postgres-websockets";
-       broken = true;
      }) {};
 
   "postgresql-binary_0_13_1_3" = callPackage