diff --git a/lib/puppet/provider/postgresql_conf/ruby.rb b/lib/puppet/provider/postgresql_conf/ruby.rb
index 63b87478d1..ab89864d10 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/provider/postgresql_conf/ruby.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/provider/postgresql_conf/ruby.rb
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 Puppet::Type.type(:postgresql_conf).provide(:ruby) do
   desc 'Set keys, values and comments in a postgresql config file.'
-  confine kernel: 'Linux'
 
   # The function pareses the postgresql.conf and figures out which active settings exist in a config file and returns an array of hashes
   #