diff --git a/locopy/redshift.py b/locopy/redshift.py
index 1575977..ea3b14f 100644
--- a/locopy/redshift.py
+++ b/locopy/redshift.py
@@ -602,10 +602,7 @@ def insert_dataframe_to_table(
             logger.info("New table has been created")
 
         logger.info("Inserting records...")
-
-        length = len(dataframe)
-
-        for start in range(0, length, batch_size):
+        for start in range(0, len(dataframe), batch_size):
             # create a list of tuples for insert
             to_insert = []
             if isinstance(dataframe, pd.DataFrame):
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ba61e5d..6d10c89 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = [
   { name="Faisal Dosani", email="faisal.dosani@capitalone.com" },
 ]
 license = {text = "Apache Software License"}
-dependencies = ["boto3<=1.35.9,>=1.9.92", "PyYAML<=6.0.1,>=5.1", "pandas<=2.2.2,>=0.25.2", "numpy<=2.0.2,>=1.22.0", "polars>=1.0.0"]
+dependencies = ["boto3<=1.35.9,>=1.9.92", "PyYAML<=6.0.1,>=5.1", "pandas<=2.2.2,>=0.25.2", "numpy<=2.0.2,>=1.22.0", "polars>=0.20.0"]
 
 requires-python = ">=3.9.0"
 classifiers = [
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 71cefc6..3a26156 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.9
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    pip-compile --output-file=requirements.txt pyproject.toml