diff --git a/dev-python/databases/Manifest b/dev-python/databases/Manifest
index 7a97fb8223..ede27d2819 100644
--- a/dev-python/databases/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/databases/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST databases-0.4.1.tar.gz 26359 BLAKE2B e1974e48560b186c4d9f017c3468ccfa425deef8aea6541c17076c1567036eabb16d3267178ca02b5f8e1aaf1cc4b5a0cce1431ed496b1852bb17a9d74b6705c SHA512 9df0bf1597015f120cef44fc270f353b75d712bcc9cc635b55d69892ba1f4ead9402230382a74caaefff75f4fac2d29e79d3014a8658404072e460c5a1d22ce1
+DIST databases-0.4.3.tar.gz 26517 BLAKE2B 38b9f86e42740a723f4022b225913e0e7a2c635eb34793fcbf62efa0917ddb6b7ee3b59cce7f4c8503aef31befb0caea3fb3e655617606296cb8ae1bb4cebfc7 SHA512 aa49f1a33edd3bf9ae7aa203dcef4941d1a1766c930cbe34405caf3dca0801bbca494ec39357591b6339977b86294d32a031bf2020f206436e7d19edc6a8e158
diff --git a/dev-python/databases/databases-0.4.1.ebuild b/dev-python/databases/databases-0.4.3.ebuild
similarity index 58%
rename from dev-python/databases/databases-0.4.1.ebuild
rename to dev-python/databases/databases-0.4.3.ebuild
index 99c8e4e2a9..0330e77949 100644
--- a/dev-python/databases/databases-0.4.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/databases/databases-0.4.3.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7,8} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..9} )
 
 DOCS_BUILDER="mkdocs"
 DOCS_DEPEND="dev-python/mkdocs-material"
@@ -21,28 +21,15 @@ LICENSE="BSD"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 
-IUSE="doc"
+RDEPEND="<dev-python/sqlalchemy-1.4.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 
-# Requires 'TEST_DATABASE_URLS' to be set
-# but to what, there is no documentation on this
-# besides this looks like it requires internet so it will fail anyway
-# To fix this, the whole 'TEST_DATABASE_URLS' stuff should probably be commented out
-# or we download whatever 'TEST_DATABASE_URLS' is supposed to point at and the variable
-# to that local directory
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-RDEPEND=">=dev-python/sqlalchemy-1.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-
-# autoflake, codecov also required for tests?
-DEPEND="test? (
-	dev-python/aiomysql[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+BDEPEND="test? (
 	dev-python/aiopg[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/aiosqlite[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/asyncpg[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/psycopg[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/pymysql[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/starlette[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 )"
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
@@ -50,13 +37,26 @@ distutils_enable_tests pytest
 python_prepare_all() {
 	# do not install LICENSE to /usr/
 	sed -i -e '/data_files/d' setup.py || die
+	# fix tests
+	sed -i -e '/databases.backends.mysql/d' tests/test_connection_options.py || die
 
 	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
 }
 
+python_test() {
+	TEST_DATABASE_URLS="" epytest \
+		--deselect tests/test_connection_options.py::test_mysql_pool_size \
+		--deselect tests/test_connection_options.py::test_mysql_explicit_pool_size \
+		--deselect tests/test_connection_options.py::test_mysql_ssl \
+		--deselect tests/test_connection_options.py::test_mysql_explicit_ssl \
+		--deselect tests/test_connection_options.py::test_mysql_pool_recycle \
+		--deselect tests/test_databases.py \
+		--deselect tests/test_integration.py::test_integration
+}
+
 pkg_postinst() {
 	optfeature "postgresql support" dev-python/asyncpg dev-python/psycopg
-	optfeature "mysql support" dev-python/aiomysql dev-python/pymysql
+	optfeature "mysql support" dev-python/pymysql
 	optfeature "sqlite support" dev-python/aiosqlite
 	optfeature "postgresql+aiopg support" dev-python/aiopg
 }