diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index 29e9c64597..cbd0640439 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ lxml
 netaddr
 python-quantumclient>=2.0
 pyudev
-sqlalchemy>=0.7.8
+sqlalchemy==0.7.9
 webob==1.0.8