diff --git a/visidata/apps/vdsql/requirements.txt b/visidata/apps/vdsql/requirements.txt
index 6159d47e6..80f099ee2 100644
--- a/visidata/apps/vdsql/requirements.txt
+++ b/visidata/apps/vdsql/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ibis-framework[sqlite]>=9
+ibis-framework[sqlite]==9
 ibis-substrait
 sqlparse
 pandas<2.0,>=1.5.0