diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 575c86f68..2d75f8b1b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. From versio
 - Shutdown should wait for in flight requests by @mkleczek in #4702
 - Remove automatic transaction retries on `40001 (serialization_failure)` errors to prevent replication lag by @laurenceisla in #3673
 - Fix unexpected results when embedding and filtering the same table more than once by @laurenceisla in #4075
+- Fix connection retrying message in `PGRST000` error by @netqo in #4980
+  + Remove redundant "Retrying the connection." from message because it is logged separately
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/src/PostgREST/Error.hs b/src/PostgREST/Error.hs
index 2399adf81..b6e1d0cc0 100644
--- a/src/PostgREST/Error.hs
+++ b/src/PostgREST/Error.hs
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ instance ErrorBody SQL.UsageError where
   code    (SQL.SessionUsageError (SQL.QueryError _ _ e)) = code e
   code    SQL.AcquisitionTimeoutUsageError               = "PGRST003"
 
-  message (SQL.ConnectionUsageError _) = "Database connection error. Retrying the connection."
+  message (SQL.ConnectionUsageError _) = "Database connection error."
   message (SQL.SessionUsageError (SQL.PipelineError e))  = message e
   message (SQL.SessionUsageError (SQL.QueryError _ _ e)) = message e
   message SQL.AcquisitionTimeoutUsageError = "Timed out acquiring connection from connection pool."
diff --git a/test/io/test_io.py b/test/io/test_io.py
index aa3e923dc..6c20c0d0f 100644
--- a/test/io/test_io.py
+++ b/test/io/test_io.py
@@ -2058,6 +2058,15 @@ def test_log_listener_connection_start(defaultenv):
         )
 
 
+def test_connection_error_message_does_not_claim_retry(defaultenv):
+    "The connection error message should not claim retrying, since PostgREST stops on fatal errors."
+    uri = f'postgresql://?dbname={defaultenv["PGDATABASE"]}&host={defaultenv["PGHOST"]}&user=some_protected_user&password=invalid_pass'
+    env = {**defaultenv, "PGRST_DB_URI": uri}
+    with run(env=env, no_startup_stdout=False, wait_for=None) as postgrest:
+        output = postgrest.read_stdout(nlines=8)
+        assert any('"message":"Database connection error."' in line for line in output)
+
+
 def test_db_pre_config_with_pg_reserved_words(defaultenv):
     "The db-pre-config should not fail unexpectedly when function name is a postgres reserved word"