diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 75ceeef..b4a596a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ Changelog
 4.3 (unreleased)
 ----------------
 
+- Ensure connections always reconnect deterministically after a server
+  disconnect (or crash).
+  Previously the pool may have harboured long-running connections that only
+  got reconnected when the pool felt like returning it to the application.
+  Those connections can easily have lingered for a long time, causing
+  user-visible errors long after the original problem was fixed, e.g. when
+  the server has restarted a couple of hours ago.
+
 - Add support for Python 3.13.
 
 - Drop support for Python 3.7 and 3.8.
diff --git a/src/Products/ZPsycopgDA/db.py b/src/Products/ZPsycopgDA/db.py
index 267a56e..f58dc9a 100644
--- a/src/Products/ZPsycopgDA/db.py
+++ b/src/Products/ZPsycopgDA/db.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ class DB(TM):
     _p_oid = _p_changed = None
     _registered = False
     _sort_key = '1'
+    _conn = None
 
     def __init__(self, dsn, tilevel, typecasts, enc='utf-8'):
         self.dsn = dsn
@@ -58,31 +59,52 @@ def __init__(self, dsn, tilevel, typecasts, enc='utf-8'):
         self.calls = 0
         self.make_mappings()
 
-    def getconn(self, init='ignored', retry=100):
-        conn = pool.getconn(self.dsn)
-        _pool = pool.getpool(self.dsn, create=False)
-        if id(conn) not in _pool._initialized:
+    def getconn(self, init='ignored'):
+        if self._conn:
+            # As the TM is a short-lived object, keep a reference to the
+            # connection - we really expect the pool's getconn() to reliably
+            # return the same connection anyway. This is needed to
+            # differentiate between an initial connection where its fine to
+            # keep going through the pool and fetching a new one versus an
+            # existing connection in a running transaction where e.g. a failure
+            # on the server side has aborted the transaction and we can't e.g.
+            # run `select 1` any longer but we also need the original
+            # connection to clean up correctly within Zope's transaction
+            # management. Theoretically this could be placed in `_register()`
+            # but I'm not 100% sure someone might be using getconn() without
+            # the TM integration thus going around `_register()` ...
+            return self._conn
+
+        _pool = pool.getpool(self.dsn, create=True)
+
+        # Loop to support cleaning up potentially all `maxconn` faulty
+        # connections. Add 1 more to force a fresh connection at least once.
+        tries = max([_pool.maxconn + 1, 1])
+        for _ in range(tries):
+            conn = pool.getconn(self.dsn, create=False)
             try:
-                conn.set_session(isolation_level=int(self.tilevel))
-            except psycopg2.InterfaceError:
-                # we got a closed connection from a poisoned pool ->
-                # close it and retry:
-                pool.putconn(self.dsn, conn, True)
-                if retry <= 0:
-                    raise ConflictError("InterfaceError from psycopg2")
-                return self.getconn(retry=retry - 1)
+                cursor = conn.cursor()
+                cursor.execute("SELECT 1")
+                conn.rollback()
+                break
+            except (psycopg2.InterfaceError, psycopg2.OperationalError):
+                pool.putconn(self.dsn, conn, close=True)
+
+        if id(conn) not in _pool._initialized:
+            conn.set_session(isolation_level=int(self.tilevel))
             conn.set_client_encoding(self.encoding)
             for tc in self.typecasts:
                 register_type(tc, conn)
             _pool._initialized.add(id(conn))
+
+        self._conn = conn
         return conn
 
     def putconn(self, close=False):
-        try:
-            conn = pool.getconn(self.dsn, False)
-        except AttributeError:
-            pass
-        pool.putconn(self.dsn, conn, close)
+        if not self._conn:
+            return
+        pool.putconn(self.dsn, self._conn, close)
+        self._conn = None
 
     def getcursor(self):
         conn = self.getconn()