diff --git a/lib/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.js b/lib/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.js
index 0cf2f793743d..a07669efcdcc 100644
--- a/lib/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.js
+++ b/lib/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.js
@@ -113,8 +113,10 @@ class ConnectionManager extends AbstractConnectionManager {
           // This should help with backends incorrectly considering idle clients to be dead and prematurely disconnecting them.
           // this feature has been added in pg module v6.0.0, check pg/CHANGELOG.md
           'keepAlive',
-          // Times out queries after a set time in milliseconds. Added in pg v7.3
+          // Times out queries after a set time in milliseconds in the database end. Added in pg v7.3
           'statement_timeout',
+          // Times out queries after a set time in milliseconds in client end, query would be still running in database end.
+          'query_timeout',
           // Terminate any session with an open transaction that has been idle for longer than the specified duration in milliseconds. Added in pg v7.17.0 only supported in postgres >= 10
           'idle_in_transaction_session_timeout'
         ]));
diff --git a/test/integration/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.test.js b/test/integration/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.test.js
index 0dbd9641980a..b6924416abb2 100644
--- a/test/integration/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.test.js
+++ b/test/integration/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.test.js
@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ if (dialect.match(/^postgres/)) {
       // `notice` is Postgres's default
       expect(result[0].client_min_messages).to.equal('notice');
     });
+    
+    it('should time out the query request when the query runs beyond the configured query_timeout', async () => {
+      const sequelize = Support.createSequelizeInstance({
+        dialectOptions: { query_timeout: 100 }
+      });
+      const error = await sequelize.query('select pg_sleep(2)').catch(e => e);
+      expect(error.message).to.equal('Query read timeout');
+    });
   });
 
   describe('Dynamic OIDs', () => {