diff --git a/packages/datacommons-db/pyproject.toml b/packages/datacommons-db/pyproject.toml
index eeea6fcd..36451dc0 100644
--- a/packages/datacommons-db/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/datacommons-db/pyproject.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "sqlalchemy",
   "sqlalchemy-spanner",
   "google-cloud-spanner>=3.67.0",
-  "setuptools<=80.0.0", # Pin version to <=80 to avoid https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76043689/pkg-resources-is-deprecated-as-an-api
+  "setuptools*", # Pin version to <=80 to avoid https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76043689/pkg-resources-is-deprecated-as-an-api
 ]
 
 [dependency-groups]