diff --git a/profiles/base/make.defaults b/profiles/base/make.defaults
index 98b9cee3e159a..c66fee8f683b4 100644
--- a/profiles/base/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/base/make.defaults
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ TWISTED_DISABLE_WRITING_OF_PLUGIN_CACHE="1"
 
 # Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo.org> (2017-07-09)
 # Default target(s) for postgres{,-multi}.eclass
-POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres16"
+POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres17"
 
 # Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> (2017-11-17)
 #