diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/postgres/scenario-ignoreConnect.js b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/postgres/scenario-ignoreConnect.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1de77ec5b89c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/postgres/scenario-ignoreConnect.js
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+const { loggingTransport } = require('@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests');
+const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
+
+Sentry.init({
+  dsn: 'https://public@dsn.ingest.sentry.io/1337',
+  release: '1.0',
+  tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
+  integrations: [Sentry.postgresIntegration({ ignoreConnectSpans: true })],
+  transport: loggingTransport,
+});
+
+// Stop the process from exiting before the transaction is sent
+setInterval(() => {}, 1000);
+
+const { Client } = require('pg');
+
+const client = new Client({ port: 5494, user: 'test', password: 'test', database: 'tests' });
+
+async function run() {
+  await Sentry.startSpan(
+    {
+      name: 'Test Transaction',
+      op: 'transaction',
+    },
+    async () => {
+      try {
+        await client.connect();
+
+        await client
+          .query(
+            'CREATE TABLE "User" ("id" SERIAL NOT NULL,"createdAt" TIMESTAMP(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,"email" TEXT NOT NULL,"name" TEXT,CONSTRAINT "User_pkey" PRIMARY KEY ("id"));',
+          )
+          .catch(() => {
+            // if this is not a fresh database, the table might already exist
+          });
+
+        await client.query('INSERT INTO "User" ("email", "name") VALUES ($1, $2)', ['tim', 'tim@domain.com']);
+        await client.query('SELECT * FROM "User"');
+      } finally {
+        await client.end();
+      }
+    },
+  );
+}
+
+run();
diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/postgres/test.ts b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/postgres/test.ts
index b0d0649a1ac9..1fd03e92d0e2 100644
--- a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/postgres/test.ts
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/postgres/test.ts
@@ -57,6 +57,54 @@ describe('postgres auto instrumentation', () => {
       .completed();
   });
 
+  test("doesn't emit connect spans if ignoreConnectSpans is true", { timeout: 90_000 }, async () => {
+    await createRunner(__dirname, 'scenario-ignoreConnect.js')
+      .withDockerCompose({
+        workingDirectory: [__dirname],
+        readyMatches: ['port 5432'],
+        setupCommand: 'yarn',
+      })
+      .expect({
+        transaction: txn => {
+          const spanNames = txn.spans?.map(span => span.description);
+          expect(spanNames?.find(name => name?.includes('connect'))).toBeUndefined();
+          expect(txn).toMatchObject({
+            transaction: 'Test Transaction',
+            spans: expect.arrayContaining([
+              expect.objectContaining({
+                data: expect.objectContaining({
+                  'db.system': 'postgresql',
+                  'db.name': 'tests',
+                  'db.statement': 'INSERT INTO "User" ("email", "name") VALUES ($1, $2)',
+                  'sentry.origin': 'auto.db.otel.postgres',
+                  'sentry.op': 'db',
+                }),
+                description: 'INSERT INTO "User" ("email", "name") VALUES ($1, $2)',
+                op: 'db',
+                status: 'ok',
+                origin: 'auto.db.otel.postgres',
+              }),
+              expect.objectContaining({
+                data: expect.objectContaining({
+                  'db.system': 'postgresql',
+                  'db.name': 'tests',
+                  'db.statement': 'SELECT * FROM "User"',
+                  'sentry.origin': 'auto.db.otel.postgres',
+                  'sentry.op': 'db',
+                }),
+                description: 'SELECT * FROM "User"',
+                op: 'db',
+                status: 'ok',
+                origin: 'auto.db.otel.postgres',
+              }),
+            ]),
+          });
+        },
+      })
+      .start()
+      .completed();
+  });
+
   test('should auto-instrument `pg-native` package', { timeout: 90_000 }, async () => {
     const EXPECTED_TRANSACTION = {
       transaction: 'Test Transaction',
diff --git a/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/postgres.ts b/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/postgres.ts
index d3b3c0cc0edf..7aeb6c671b63 100644
--- a/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/postgres.ts
+++ b/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/postgres.ts
@@ -3,24 +3,29 @@ import type { IntegrationFn } from '@sentry/core';
 import { defineIntegration } from '@sentry/core';
 import { addOriginToSpan, generateInstrumentOnce } from '@sentry/node-core';
 
+interface PostgresIntegrationOptions {
+  ignoreConnectSpans?: boolean;
+}
+
 const INTEGRATION_NAME = 'Postgres';
 
 export const instrumentPostgres = generateInstrumentOnce(
   INTEGRATION_NAME,
-  () =>
-    new PgInstrumentation({
-      requireParentSpan: true,
-      requestHook(span) {
-        addOriginToSpan(span, 'auto.db.otel.postgres');
-      },
-    }),
+  PgInstrumentation,
+  (options?: PostgresIntegrationOptions) => ({
+    requireParentSpan: true,
+    requestHook(span) {
+      addOriginToSpan(span, 'auto.db.otel.postgres');
+    },
+    ignoreConnectSpans: options?.ignoreConnectSpans ?? false,
+  }),
 );
 
-const _postgresIntegration = (() => {
+const _postgresIntegration = ((options?: PostgresIntegrationOptions) => {
   return {
     name: INTEGRATION_NAME,
     setupOnce() {
-      instrumentPostgres();
+      instrumentPostgres(options);
     },
   };
 }) satisfies IntegrationFn;
diff --git a/packages/node/test/integrations/tracing/postgres.test.ts b/packages/node/test/integrations/tracing/postgres.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aeb72e75c498
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/node/test/integrations/tracing/postgres.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+import { PgInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-pg';
+import { INSTRUMENTED } from '@sentry/node-core';
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, type MockInstance, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { instrumentPostgres, postgresIntegration } from '../../../src/integrations/tracing/postgres';
+
+vi.mock('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-pg');
+
+describe('postgres integration', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+    delete INSTRUMENTED.Postgres;
+
+    (PgInstrumentation as unknown as MockInstance).mockImplementation(() => ({
+      setTracerProvider: () => undefined,
+      setMeterProvider: () => undefined,
+      getConfig: () => ({}),
+      setConfig: () => ({}),
+      enable: () => undefined,
+    }));
+  });
+
+  it('has a name and setupOnce method', () => {
+    const integration = postgresIntegration();
+    expect(integration.name).toBe('Postgres');
+    expect(typeof integration.setupOnce).toBe('function');
+  });
+
+  it('passes ignoreConnectSpans: true to PgInstrumentation when set on integration', () => {
+    postgresIntegration({ ignoreConnectSpans: true }).setupOnce!();
+
+    expect(PgInstrumentation).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(PgInstrumentation).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      requireParentSpan: true,
+      requestHook: expect.any(Function),
+      ignoreConnectSpans: true,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('passes ignoreConnectSpans: false to PgInstrumentation by default', () => {
+    postgresIntegration().setupOnce!();
+
+    expect(PgInstrumentation).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(PgInstrumentation).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      requireParentSpan: true,
+      requestHook: expect.any(Function),
+      ignoreConnectSpans: false,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('instrumentPostgres receives ignoreConnectSpans option', () => {
+    instrumentPostgres({ ignoreConnectSpans: true });
+
+    expect(PgInstrumentation).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(PgInstrumentation).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      requireParentSpan: true,
+      requestHook: expect.any(Function),
+      ignoreConnectSpans: true,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('second call to instrumentPostgres passes full config to setConfig, not raw user options', () => {
+    const mockSetConfig = vi.fn();
+    (PgInstrumentation as unknown as MockInstance).mockImplementation(() => ({
+      setTracerProvider: () => undefined,
+      setMeterProvider: () => undefined,
+      getConfig: () => ({}),
+      setConfig: mockSetConfig,
+      enable: () => undefined,
+    }));
+
+    instrumentPostgres({ ignoreConnectSpans: true });
+    expect(PgInstrumentation).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        requireParentSpan: true,
+        ignoreConnectSpans: true,
+        requestHook: expect.any(Function),
+      }),
+    );
+
+    mockSetConfig.mockClear();
+    instrumentPostgres({ ignoreConnectSpans: false });
+
+    expect(PgInstrumentation).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(mockSetConfig).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(mockSetConfig).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        requireParentSpan: true,
+        ignoreConnectSpans: false,
+        requestHook: expect.any(Function),
+      }),
+    );
+  });
+});