diff --git a/glide.lock b/glide.lock
index bb94e693b..27ee9beba 100644
--- a/glide.lock
+++ b/glide.lock
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-hash: aa008e00a8cf34fa59a081dd67644319f9d5d077bf4de81aa4a25a2d5b8781a1
-updated: 2018-01-15T15:00:53.231516+01:00
+hash: 688e15147f1217da635b83ee33f20a3741a400a493787d79992d1650f6e4c514
+updated: 2018-05-17T10:46:49.090929+02:00
 imports:
 - name: github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go
-  version: 0cebc639926eb91b0192dae4b28bc808417e764c
+  version: ee7b4b1162937cba700de23bd90acb742982e626
   subpackages:
   - aws
   - aws/awserr
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ imports:
   - aws/request
   - aws/session
   - aws/signer/v4
+  - internal/sdkio
+  - internal/sdkrand
   - internal/shareddefaults
   - private/protocol
   - private/protocol/ec2query
@@ -97,6 +99,8 @@ imports:
   - buffer
   - jlexer
   - jwriter
+- name: github.com/mohae/deepcopy
+  version: c48cc78d482608239f6c4c92a4abd87eb8761c90
 - name: github.com/motomux/pretty
   version: b2aad2c9a95d14eb978f29baa6e3a5c3c20eef30
 - name: github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell
@@ -104,7 +108,7 @@ imports:
 - name: github.com/PuerkitoBio/urlesc
   version: 5bd2802263f21d8788851d5305584c82a5c75d7e
 - name: github.com/Sirupsen/logrus
-  version: d682213848ed68c0a260ca37d6dd5ace8423f5ba
+  version: c155da19408a8799da419ed3eeb0cb5db0ad5dbc
 - name: github.com/spf13/pflag
   version: 9ff6c6923cfffbcd502984b8e0c80539a94968b7
 - name: github.com/ugorji/go
@@ -153,7 +157,7 @@ imports:
   - pkg/client/clientset/clientset/scheme
   - pkg/client/clientset/clientset/typed/apiextensions/v1beta1
 - name: k8s.io/apimachinery
-  version: 8ab5f3d8a330c2e9baaf84e39042db8d49034ae2
+  version: 1cb2cdd78d38df243e686d1b572b76e190469842
   subpackages:
   - pkg/api/equality
   - pkg/api/errors
diff --git a/glide.yaml b/glide.yaml
index 5000dcaaf..3d79d8f68 100644
--- a/glide.yaml
+++ b/glide.yaml
@@ -44,3 +44,4 @@ import:
   - tools/clientcmd
   - tools/remotecommand
 - package: gopkg.in/yaml.v2
+- package: github.com/mohae/deepcopy
diff --git a/pkg/controller/postgresql.go b/pkg/controller/postgresql.go
index 45645a709..8b890129b 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/postgresql.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/postgresql.go
@@ -348,10 +348,9 @@ func (c *Controller) mergeDeprecatedPostgreSQLSpecParameters(spec *spec.Postgres
 
 func (c *Controller) queueClusterEvent(informerOldSpec, informerNewSpec *spec.Postgresql, eventType spec.EventType) {
 	var (
-		uid              types.UID
-		clusterName      spec.NamespacedName
-		clusterError     error
-		oldSpec, newSpec *spec.Postgresql
+		uid          types.UID
+		clusterName  spec.NamespacedName
+		clusterError error
 	)
 
 	if informerOldSpec != nil { //update, delete
@@ -380,22 +379,13 @@ func (c *Controller) queueClusterEvent(informerOldSpec, informerNewSpec *spec.Po
 	// in the informer internal state, making it incohherent with the actual Kubernetes object (and, as a side
 	// effect, the modified state will be returned together with subsequent events).
 
-	if informerOldSpec != nil {
-		t := *informerOldSpec
-		oldSpec = &t
-	}
-	if informerNewSpec != nil {
-		t := *informerNewSpec
-		newSpec = &t
-	}
-
 	workerID := c.clusterWorkerID(clusterName)
 	clusterEvent := spec.ClusterEvent{
 		EventTime: time.Now(),
 		EventType: eventType,
 		UID:       uid,
-		OldSpec:   oldSpec,
-		NewSpec:   newSpec,
+		OldSpec:   informerOldSpec.Clone(),
+		NewSpec:   informerNewSpec.Clone(),
 		WorkerID:  workerID,
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/spec/postgresql.go b/pkg/spec/postgresql.go
index c7b5df902..bd5d06127 100644
--- a/pkg/spec/postgresql.go
+++ b/pkg/spec/postgresql.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package spec
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"github.com/mohae/deepcopy"
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -138,6 +139,19 @@ var (
 	serviceNameRegex = regexp.MustCompile(serviceNameRegexString)
 )
 
+// Clone makes a deepcopy of the Postgresql structure. The Error field is nulled-out,
+// as there is no guaratee that the actual implementation of the error interface
+// will not contain any private fields not-reachable to deepcopy. This should be ok,
+// since Error is never read from a Kubernetes object.
+func (p *Postgresql) Clone() *Postgresql {
+	if p == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	c := deepcopy.Copy(p).(*Postgresql)
+	c.Error = nil
+	return c
+}
+
 func parseTime(s string) (time.Time, error) {
 	parts := strings.Split(s, ":")
 	if len(parts) != 2 {
diff --git a/pkg/spec/postgresql_test.go b/pkg/spec/postgresql_test.go
index 07251edeb..aef698782 100644
--- a/pkg/spec/postgresql_test.go
+++ b/pkg/spec/postgresql_test.go
@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
+	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"reflect"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
-
-	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 )
 
 var parseTimeTests = []struct {
@@ -546,3 +545,15 @@ func TestPostgresListMeta(t *testing.T) {
 		return
 	}
 }
+
+func TestPostgresqlClone(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range unmarshalCluster {
+		cp := &tt.out
+		cp.Error = nil
+		clone := cp.Clone()
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(clone, cp) {
+			t.Errorf("TestPostgresqlClone expected: \n%#v\n, got \n%#v", cp, clone)
+		}
+
+	}
+}