diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6a3612a1e6e..d6b5fe24aa9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
  - #3361, Clarify PGRST204(column not found) error message - @steve-chavez
  - #3373, Remove rejected mediatype `application/vnd.pgrst.object+json` from response - @taimoorzaeem
  - #3418, Fix OpenAPI not tagging a FK column correctly on O2O relationships - @laurenceisla
+ - #3256, Fix wrong http status for pg error `42P17 infinite recursion` - @taimoorzaeem
 
 ## [12.0.2] - 2023-12-20
 
diff --git a/docs/references/errors.rst b/docs/references/errors.rst
index f600100651f..1a95386889c 100644
--- a/docs/references/errors.rst
+++ b/docs/references/errors.rst
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ PostgREST translates `PostgreSQL error codes <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/cu
 +--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
 | 42P01                    | 404                     | undefined table                 |
 +--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
+| 42P17                    | 500                     | infinite recursion              |
++--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
 | 42501                    | | if authenticated 403, | insufficient privileges         |
 |                          | | else 401              |                                 |
 +--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
diff --git a/src/PostgREST/Error.hs b/src/PostgREST/Error.hs
index 1e2d46d0f51..84b28166080 100644
--- a/src/PostgREST/Error.hs
+++ b/src/PostgREST/Error.hs
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ pgErrorStatus authed (SQL.SessionUsageError (SQL.QueryError _ _ (SQL.ResultError
           then HTTP.status406
           else HTTP.status404 -- undefined function
         "42P01"   -> HTTP.status404 -- undefined table
+        "42P17"   -> HTTP.status500 -- infinite recursion
         "42501"   -> if authed then HTTP.status403 else HTTP.status401 -- insufficient privilege
         'P':'T':n -> fromMaybe HTTP.status500 (HTTP.mkStatus <$> readMaybe n <*> pure m)
         "PGRST"   ->
diff --git a/test/spec/Feature/Query/QuerySpec.hs b/test/spec/Feature/Query/QuerySpec.hs
index e1ce20aa12e..3b1da167b6f 100644
--- a/test/spec/Feature/Query/QuerySpec.hs
+++ b/test/spec/Feature/Query/QuerySpec.hs
@@ -1407,3 +1407,10 @@ spec actualPgVersion = do
         { matchStatus  = 200
         , matchHeaders = [matchContentTypeJson]
         }
+
+  context "test infinite recursion error 42P17" $
+    it "return http status 500" $
+      get "/infinite_recursion?select=*" `shouldRespondWith`
+        [json|{"code":"42P17","message":"infinite recursion detected in rules for relation \"infinite_recursion\"","details":null,"hint":null}|]
+        { matchStatus = 500 }
+
diff --git a/test/spec/fixtures/schema.sql b/test/spec/fixtures/schema.sql
index be677e5f2f2..7b7f84f2a33 100644
--- a/test/spec/fixtures/schema.sql
+++ b/test/spec/fixtures/schema.sql
@@ -3768,3 +3768,10 @@ create aggregate test.outfunc_agg (anyelement) (
 , stype = "pg/outfunc"
 , sfunc = outfunc_trans
 );
+
+-- https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/3256
+create view test.infinite_recursion as
+select * from test.projects;
+
+create or replace view test.infinite_recursion as
+select * from test.infinite_recursion;