diff --git a/packages/pg/lib/client.js b/packages/pg/lib/client.js
index 7a2fc9a64..8958aa2d9 100644
--- a/packages/pg/lib/client.js
+++ b/packages/pg/lib/client.js
@@ -437,6 +437,16 @@ class Client extends EventEmitter {
     this._activeQuery = null
     if (activeQuery.name) {
       delete this.connection.submittedNamedStatements[activeQuery.name]
+      // pipelined queries already on the wire skipped their own Parse relying on this one.
+      // If it failed before parseComplete the backend will answer them with
+      // 'prepared statement does not exist', so hand them the original error instead.
+      if (!this.connection.parsedStatements[activeQuery.name]) {
+        for (const query of this._sentQueryQueue) {
+          if (query.name === activeQuery.name) {
+            query._pipelineParseError = msg
+          }
+        }
+      }
     }
     activeQuery.handleError(msg, this.connection)
   }
diff --git a/packages/pg/lib/query.js b/packages/pg/lib/query.js
index 6b9214199..eea7b6fce 100644
--- a/packages/pg/lib/query.js
+++ b/packages/pg/lib/query.js
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ class Query extends EventEmitter {
   }
 
   handleError(err, connection) {
+    // the named statement this query relied on was never created (26000): report why
+    if (this._pipelineParseError && err && err.code === '26000') {
+      err = this._pipelineParseError
+    }
     // need to sync after error during a prepared statement
     if (this._canceledDueToError) {
       err = this._canceledDueToError
diff --git a/packages/pg/test/integration/client/pipelining-tests.js b/packages/pg/test/integration/client/pipelining-tests.js
index 957047d7d..1d9d24833 100644
--- a/packages/pg/test/integration/client/pipelining-tests.js
+++ b/packages/pg/test/integration/client/pipelining-tests.js
@@ -123,6 +123,29 @@ suite.test(
     }
 )
 
+// Two pipelined queries share a statement name and the parse fails: the second skipped
+// its own Parse, so the backend answers 'prepared statement does not exist'. The client
+// must report the original parse error to it instead.
+suite.test(
+  'named statement parse failure reports the real error to the queries behind it',
+  !helper.args.native &&
+    async function () {
+      const client = helper.client(undefined, { pipeline: true })
+
+      const results = await Promise.allSettled([
+        client.query({ name: 'shared-bad', text: 'SELECT no_such_column_xyz' }),
+        client.query({ name: 'shared-bad', text: 'SELECT no_such_column_xyz' }),
+      ])
+
+      assert.equal(results[0].status, 'rejected')
+      assert.equal(results[1].status, 'rejected')
+      assert.ok(results[0].reason.message.includes('no_such_column_xyz'), results[0].reason.message)
+      assert.ok(results[1].reason.message.includes('no_such_column_xyz'), results[1].reason.message)
+
+      await client.end()
+    }
+)
+
 // #14: query_timeout with pipelining
 // When an already-sent pipelined query times out, the connection is destroyed
 // to unblock the pipeline — subsequent queries error rather than hanging.