diff --git a/contrib/sparse-checkout/setup-sparse-checkout.sh b/contrib/sparse-checkout/setup-sparse-checkout.sh
index c728a03e35e..2f8b843b1bf 100755
--- a/contrib/sparse-checkout/setup-sparse-checkout.sh
+++ b/contrib/sparse-checkout/setup-sparse-checkout.sh
@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ git config submodule."contrib/icu".update '!../sparse-checkout/update-icu.sh'
 git config submodule."contrib/boost".update '!../sparse-checkout/update-boost.sh'
 git config submodule."contrib/aws-s2n-tls".update '!../sparse-checkout/update-aws-s2n-tls.sh'
 git config submodule."contrib/protobuf".update '!../sparse-checkout/update-protobuf.sh'
+git config submodule."contrib/postgres".update '!../sparse-checkout/update-postgres.sh'
 git config submodule."contrib/libxml2".update '!../sparse-checkout/update-libxml2.sh'
 git config submodule."contrib/brotli".update '!../sparse-checkout/update-brotli.sh'
diff --git a/contrib/sparse-checkout/update-postgres.sh b/contrib/sparse-checkout/update-postgres.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..d54d29c27c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/sparse-checkout/update-postgres.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo "Using sparse checkout for postgres"
+
+FILES_TO_CHECKOUT=$(git rev-parse --git-dir)/info/sparse-checkout
+echo '!/*' > $FILES_TO_CHECKOUT
+echo '/src/interfaces/libpq/*' >> $FILES_TO_CHECKOUT
+echo '!/src/interfaces/libpq/*/*' >> $FILES_TO_CHECKOUT
+echo '/src/common/*' >> $FILES_TO_CHECKOUT
+echo '!/src/port/*/*' >> $FILES_TO_CHECKOUT
+echo '/src/port/*' >> $FILES_TO_CHECKOUT
+echo '/src/include/*' >> $FILES_TO_CHECKOUT
+
+git config core.sparsecheckout true
+git checkout $1
+git read-tree -mu HEAD