diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-## Contributing to pq
-
-`pq` has a backlog of pull requests, but contributions are still very
-much welcome. You can help with patch review, submitting bug reports,
-or adding new functionality. There is no formal style guide, but
-please conform to the style of existing code and general Go formatting
-conventions when submitting patches.
-
-### Patch review
-
-Help review existing open pull requests by commenting on the code or
-proposed functionality.
-
-### Bug reports
-
-We appreciate any bug reports, but especially ones with self-contained
-(doesn't depend on code outside of pq), minimal (can't be simplified
-further) test cases. It's especially helpful if you can submit a pull
-request with just the failing test case (you'll probably want to
-pattern it after the tests in
-[conn_test.go](https://github.com/lib/pq/blob/master/conn_test.go).
-
-### New functionality
-
-There are a number of pending patches for new functionality, so
-additional feature patches will take a while to merge. Still, patches
-are generally reviewed based on usefulness and complexity in addition
-to time-in-queue, so if you have a knockout idea, take a shot. Feel
-free to open an issue discussion your proposed patch beforehand.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -1,21 +1,11 @@
 # pq - A pure Go postgres driver for Go's database/sql package
 
 [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/lib/pq?status.svg)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/lib/pq?tab=doc)
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/lib/pq.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/lib/pq)
 
 ## Install
 
 	go get github.com/lib/pq
 
-## Docs
-
-For detailed documentation and basic usage examples, please see the package
-documentation at <https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/lib/pq?tab=doc>.
-
-## Tests
-
-`go test` is used for testing.  See [TESTS.md](TESTS.md) for more details.
-
 ## Features
 
 * SSL
@@ -30,66 +20,10 @@ documentation at <https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/lib/pq?tab=doc>.
 * Notifications: `LISTEN`/`NOTIFY`
 * pgpass support
 
-## Future / Things you can help with
-
-* Better COPY FROM / COPY TO (see discussion in #181)
+## Tests
 
-## Thank you (alphabetical)
+`go test` is used for testing.  See [TESTS.md](TESTS.md) for more details.
 
-Some of these contributors are from the original library `bmizerany/pq.go` whose
-code still exists in here.
+## Status
 
-* Andy Balholm (andybalholm)
-* Ben Berkert (benburkert)
-* Benjamin Heatwole (bheatwole)
-* Bill Mill (llimllib)
-* Bjørn Madsen (aeons)
-* Blake Gentry (bgentry)
-* Brad Fitzpatrick (bradfitz)
-* Charlie Melbye (cmelbye)
-* Chris Bandy (cbandy)
-* Chris Gilling (cgilling)
-* Chris Walsh (cwds)
-* Dan Sosedoff (sosedoff)
-* Daniel Farina (fdr)
-* Eric Chlebek (echlebek)
-* Eric Garrido (minusnine)
-* Eric Urban (hydrogen18)
-* Everyone at The Go Team
-* Evan Shaw (edsrzf)
-* Ewan Chou (coocood)
-* Fazal Majid (fazalmajid)
-* Federico Romero (federomero)
-* Fumin (fumin)
-* Gary Burd (garyburd)
-* Heroku (heroku)
-* James Pozdena (jpoz)
-* Jason McVetta (jmcvetta)
-* Jeremy Jay (pbnjay)
-* Joakim Sernbrant (serbaut)
-* John Gallagher (jgallagher)
-* Jonathan Rudenberg (titanous)
-* Joël Stemmer (jstemmer)
-* Kamil Kisiel (kisielk)
-* Kelly Dunn (kellydunn)
-* Keith Rarick (kr)
-* Kir Shatrov (kirs)
-* Lann Martin (lann)
-* Maciek Sakrejda (uhoh-itsmaciek)
-* Marc Brinkmann (mbr)
-* Marko Tiikkaja (johto)
-* Matt Newberry (MattNewberry)
-* Matt Robenolt (mattrobenolt)
-* Martin Olsen (martinolsen)
-* Mike Lewis (mikelikespie)
-* Nicolas Patry (Narsil)
-* Oliver Tonnhofer (olt)
-* Patrick Hayes (phayes)
-* Paul Hammond (paulhammond)
-* Ryan Smith (ryandotsmith)
-* Samuel Stauffer (samuel)
-* Timothée Peignier (cyberdelia)
-* Travis Cline (tmc)
-* TruongSinh Tran-Nguyen (truongsinh)
-* Yaismel Miranda (ympons)
-* notedit (notedit)
+This package is effectively in maintenance mode and is not actively developed. Small patches and features are only rarely reviewed and merged. We recommend using [pgx](https://github.com/jackc/pgx) which is actively maintained.