diff --git a/dbapi.cabal b/dbapi.cabal
index dc1e4840b..4adf8e74a 100644
--- a/dbapi.cabal
+++ b/dbapi.cabal
@@ -36,5 +36,14 @@ Test-Suite spec
   Hs-Source-Dirs:      src , test
   Ghc-Options:         -Wall
   Main-Is:             Spec.hs
-  Build-Depends:       base, hspec2, HDBC,
-                       HDBC-postgresql
+  Build-Depends:       base, hspec2
+                     , HDBC, HDBC-postgresql
+                     , warp, wai >= 3.0.1 && < 3.0.2
+                     , http-types, scientific, time
+                     , bytestring, aeson, network
+                     , text, optparse-applicative
+                     , unordered-containers
+                     , regex-base
+                     , http-media, regex-tdfa
+                     , Ranged-sets
+                     , transformers
diff --git a/test/PgQuerySpec.hs b/test/PgQuerySpec.hs
index de506a39a..9ec72211e 100644
--- a/test/PgQuerySpec.hs
+++ b/test/PgQuerySpec.hs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+
 module PgQuerySpec where
 
 import Test.Hspec
@@ -5,7 +7,10 @@ import Test.Hspec
 import Database.HDBC
 import Database.HDBC.PostgreSQL
 
-loadFixture :: String -> IO ()
+import PgQuery (insert)
+import Types (SqlRow(..))
+
+loadFixture :: String -> IO Connection
 loadFixture name = do
   conn <- connectPostgreSQL "postgres://postgres:@localhost:5432/dbapi_test"
   sql <- readFile $ "test/fixtures/" ++ name ++ ".sql"
@@ -13,6 +18,7 @@ loadFixture name = do
   runRaw conn "create schema public"
   runRaw conn sql
   commit conn
+  return conn
 
 main :: IO ()
 main = hspec spec
@@ -20,8 +26,13 @@ main = hspec spec
 spec :: Spec
 spec = beforeAll (loadFixture "schema") $ do
   describe "insert" $
-    it "can insert into an empty table" $ \_ ->
-      head [23 ..] `shouldBe` (23 :: Int)
+    it "can insert into an empty table" $ \conn -> do
+      _ <- insert "public" "auto_incrementing_pk" (SqlRow [
+          ("non_nullable_string", toSql ("a string that isn't null" :: String))
+        ]) conn
+      r <- quickQuery conn "select count(1) from auto_incrementing_pk" []
+      commit conn
+      [[toSql (1 :: Int)]] `shouldBe` r
 
   describe "insert again" $
     it "is true" $ \_ ->