diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ccbf54493..0a5402069 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2084,6 +2084,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "dotenvy"
+version = "0.15.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1aaf95b3e5c8f23aa320147307562d361db0ae0d51242340f558153b4eb2439b"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "downcast-rs"
 version = "1.2.1"
@@ -5378,6 +5384,7 @@ name = "rig-postgres"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
+ "dotenvy",
  "log",
  "pgvector",
  "rig-core",
diff --git a/rig-postgres/Cargo.toml b/rig-postgres/Cargo.toml
index a351f2dc6..577a9f5bb 100644
--- a/rig-postgres/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rig-postgres/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0.215", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.133"
 tokio-postgres = "0.7.12"
 tracing = "0.1.40"
+dotenvy = "0.15.7"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0.94"
diff --git a/rig-postgres/README.md b/rig-postgres/README.md
index bc25a6ce8..71cbcd20b 100644
--- a/rig-postgres/README.md
+++ b/rig-postgres/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     <span style="font-size: 48px; margin: 0 20px; font-weight: regular; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"> + </span>
     <picture>
         <source srcset="https://www.postgresql.org/media/img/about/press/elephant.png">
-        <img src="https://www.postgresql.org/media/img/about/press/elephant.png" width="200" alt="SQLite logo">
+        <img src="https://www.postgresql.org/media/img/about/press/elephant.png" width="200" alt="Postgres logo">
     </picture>
 </div>
 
diff --git a/rig-postgres/examples/vector_search_postgres.rs b/rig-postgres/examples/vector_search_postgres.rs
index d08850de5..188109b2c 100644
--- a/rig-postgres/examples/vector_search_postgres.rs
+++ b/rig-postgres/examples/vector_search_postgres.rs
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ impl PostgresVectorStoreTable for Document {
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
+    // use dotvenv to load environment variables
+    dotenvy::dotenv().ok();
+
     // set up postgres connection
     let database_url = std::env::var("DATABASE_URL").expect("DATABASE_URL not set");
     let db_config: tokio_postgres::Config = database_url.parse()?;