diff --git a/src/Client/ClientBase.cpp b/src/Client/ClientBase.cpp
index 19244134617e..fc1163469465 100644
--- a/src/Client/ClientBase.cpp
+++ b/src/Client/ClientBase.cpp
@@ -1147,7 +1147,18 @@ void ClientBase::onEndOfStream()
         bool is_running = false;
         output_format->setStartTime(
             clock_gettime_ns(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) - static_cast<UInt64>(progress_indication.elapsedSeconds() * 1000000000), is_running);
-        output_format->finalize();
+
+        try
+        {
+            output_format->finalize();
+        }
+        catch (...)
+        {
+            /// Format should be reset to make it work for subsequent query
+            /// (otherwise it will throw again in resetOutput())
+            output_format.reset();
+            throw;
+        }
     }
 
     resetOutput();
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/02871_clickhouse_client_restart_pager.reference b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02871_clickhouse_client_restart_pager.reference
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7b36cc96f5ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02871_clickhouse_client_restart_pager.reference
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
+8
+9
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
+8
+9
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/02871_clickhouse_client_restart_pager.sh b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02871_clickhouse_client_restart_pager.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..cc4ce9b122e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02871_clickhouse_client_restart_pager.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+CUR_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
+# shellcheck source=../shell_config.sh
+. "$CUR_DIR"/../shell_config.sh
+
+# head by default print 10 rows, but it is not enough to query 11 rows, since
+# we need to overflow the default pipe size, hence just 1 million of rows (it
+# should be around 6 MiB in text representation, should be definitelly enough).
+$CLICKHOUSE_CLIENT --ignore-error -nm --pager head -q "
+    select * from numbers(1e6); -- { clientError CANNOT_WRITE_TO_FILE_DESCRIPTOR }
+    select * from numbers(1e6); -- { clientError CANNOT_WRITE_TO_FILE_DESCRIPTOR }
+"
+
+exit 0