diff --git a/lib/cartodb/backends/pg_connection.js b/lib/cartodb/backends/pg_connection.js
index d5c75a9c..f389c687 100644
--- a/lib/cartodb/backends/pg_connection.js
+++ b/lib/cartodb/backends/pg_connection.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 var PSQL = require('cartodb-psql');
 var _ = require('underscore');
+const debug = require('debug')('cachechan');
 
 function PgConnection(metadataBackend) {
     this.metadataBackend = metadataBackend;
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ PgConnection.prototype.setDBConn = function(dbowner, params, callback) {
  */
 
 PgConnection.prototype.getConnection = function(username, callback) {
-    require('debug')('cachechan')("getConn1");
+    debug("getConn1");
 
     this.getDatabaseParams(username, (err, databaseParams) => {
         if (err) {