diff --git a/mu-persistent.cabal b/mu-persistent.cabal
--- a/mu-persistent.cabal
+++ b/mu-persistent.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:               mu-persistent
-version:            0.3.0.0
+version:            0.3.1.0
 synopsis:           Utilities for interoperation between Mu and Persistent
 description:
   Please see the <https://github.com/higherkindness/mu-haskell/persistent#readme readme file>.
@@ -27,11 +27,12 @@
   hs-source-dirs:   src
   default-language: Haskell2010
   build-depends:
-      base          >=4.7   && <5
-    , monad-logger
-    , mu-schema     >=0.3.0
-    , persistent
-    , resourcet
-    , transformers
+      base          >=4.12 && <5
+    , monad-logger  >=0.3  && <0.4
+    , mu-schema     ==0.3.*
+    , persistent    >=2.10 && <3
+    , resourcet     >=1.2  && <2
+    , resource-pool >=0.2  && <0.3
+    , transformers  >=0.5  && <0.6
 
   ghc-options:      -Wall
diff --git a/src/Mu/Adapter/Persistent.hs b/src/Mu/Adapter/Persistent.hs
--- a/src/Mu/Adapter/Persistent.hs
+++ b/src/Mu/Adapter/Persistent.hs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   WithEntityNestedId(..)
 , WithEntityPlainId(..)
   -- * Generic utilities
-, runDb
+, runDb, Pool, runDbPool
 ) where
 
 import           Control.Monad.IO.Class
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import           Control.Monad.Trans.Reader
 import           Control.Monad.Trans.Resource.Internal
 import           Data.Int
+import           Data.Pool                             (Pool)
 import           Database.Persist.Sql
 import           GHC.Generics
 import           GHC.TypeLits
@@ -95,3 +96,12 @@
       -> ReaderT SqlBackend (NoLoggingT (ResourceT IO)) a
       -> m a
 runDb = (liftIO .) . flip runSqlPersistM
+
+-- | Simple utility to execute a database operation
+--   in any monad which supports 'IO' operations.
+--   Note that all logging messages are discarded.
+runDbPool :: MonadIO m
+          => Pool SqlBackend
+          -> ReaderT SqlBackend (NoLoggingT (ResourceT IO)) a
+          -> m a
+runDbPool = (liftIO .) . flip runSqlPersistMPool