diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
index 741ba6f3d7..5e452974ad 100644
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ b/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-paths = [ "/home/cs/src/rust-postgres" ]
-
 [build]
 # This is only present for local builds, as it will be overridden
 # by the RUSTDOCFLAGS env var in CI.
@@ -8,4 +6,3 @@ rustdocflags = ["-Arustdoc::private_intra_doc_links"]
 [alias]
 build_testing = ["build", "--features", "testing"]
 neon = ["run", "--bin", "neon_local"]
-
diff --git a/pageserver/client/src/page_service.rs b/pageserver/client/src/page_service.rs
index 0f88bd85d3..f9507fc47a 100644
--- a/pageserver/client/src/page_service.rs
+++ b/pageserver/client/src/page_service.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 use std::pin::Pin;
 
-use anyhow::Context;
 use futures::SinkExt;
 use pageserver_api::{
     models::{
@@ -66,11 +65,10 @@ impl Client {
         let Client {
             cancel_on_client_drop,
             conn_task,
-            client,
+            client: _,
         } = self;
         Ok(PagestreamClient {
             copy_both: Box::pin(copy_both),
-            client,
             conn_task,
             cancel_on_client_drop,
         })
@@ -95,28 +93,11 @@ impl Client {
         }
         Ok(self.client.copy_out(&args.join(" ")).await?)
     }
-
-    pub async fn shutdown(self) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        let Self {
-            client,
-            cancel_on_client_drop,
-            conn_task,
-        } = self;
-
-        drop(client); // this sends Terminate message(?)
-        conn_task
-            .await
-            .context("wait for network communications to finish cleanly")?;
-        drop(cancel_on_client_drop);
-        Ok(())
-    }
 }
 
 /// Create using [`Client::pagestream`].
 pub struct PagestreamClient {
     copy_both: Pin<Box<tokio_postgres::CopyBothDuplex<bytes::Bytes>>>,
-    /// Must not use this until copy_both has been shut down.
-    client: tokio_postgres::Client,
     cancel_on_client_drop: Option<tokio_util::sync::DropGuard>,
     conn_task: JoinHandle<()>,
 }
@@ -127,11 +108,10 @@ pub struct RelTagBlockNo {
 }
 
 impl PagestreamClient {
-    pub async fn shutdown(self) -> anyhow::Result<Client> {
+    pub async fn shutdown(self) {
         let Self {
-            mut copy_both,
-            client,
-            cancel_on_client_drop,
+            copy_both,
+            cancel_on_client_drop: cancel_conn_task,
             conn_task,
         } = self;
         // The `copy_both` contains internal channel sender, the receiver of which is polled by `conn_task`.
@@ -151,13 +131,9 @@ impl PagestreamClient {
         //
         // NB: page_service doesn't have a use case to exit the `pagestream` mode currently.
         // => https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6390
-
-        let _: () = copy_both.close().await.unwrap();
-        Ok(Client {
-            client,
-            cancel_on_client_drop,
-            conn_task,
-        })
+        let _ = cancel_conn_task.unwrap();
+        conn_task.await.unwrap();
+        drop(copy_both);
     }
 
     pub async fn getpage(
diff --git a/pageserver/pagebench/examples/hang_pageserver.rs b/pageserver/pagebench/examples/hang_pageserver.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 78e7ada42f..0000000000
--- a/pageserver/pagebench/examples/hang_pageserver.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-use std::str::FromStr;
-
-use pageserver_client::page_service::Client;
-use utils::{
-    id::{TenantId, TimelineId},
-    logging::Output,
-};
-
-#[tokio::main]
-async fn main() {
-    utils::logging::init(
-        utils::logging::LogFormat::Plain,
-        utils::logging::TracingErrorLayerEnablement::Disabled,
-        Output::Stderr,
-    ).unwrap();
-
-    let client = Client::new("postgresql://localhost:64000".to_owned())
-        .await
-        .unwrap();
-
-    let mut client = Some(client);
-    for i in 1..10 {
-        println!("Iteration: {}", i);
-        let myclient = client.take().unwrap();
-
-        let pagestream_client = myclient
-            .pagestream(
-                TenantId::from_str("e0dfa97c9dc84f32ab423fe44f186283").unwrap(),
-                TimelineId::from_str("585d77e52a6e43a7099c6ebaea8730c2").unwrap(),
-            )
-            .await
-            .unwrap();
-
-        let myclient = pagestream_client.shutdown().await.unwrap();
-        client = Some(myclient);
-    }
-
-    let client = client.take().unwrap();
-    client.shutdown().await.unwrap();
-}
diff --git a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
index 5388f3742b..6ea5f396d0 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
@@ -596,14 +596,7 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
 
             let copy_data_bytes = match msg? {
                 Some(FeMessage::CopyData(bytes)) => bytes,
-                Some(FeMessage::Terminate) => {
-                    info!("received Terminate message");
-                    break; // FIXME we want to not wait for new comment when we see this one (and generally, pgb.read_message() should probably return an error when it sees it)
-                }
-                Some(FeMessage::CopyDone) => {
-                    info!("received CopyDone message");
-                    break;
-                }
+                Some(FeMessage::Terminate) => break,
                 Some(m) => {
                     return Err(QueryError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(
                         "unexpected message: {m:?} during COPY"
@@ -722,9 +715,6 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
                 }
             }
         }
-
-        pgb.write_message_noflush(&BeMessage::CopyDone)?;
-        self.flush_cancellable(pgb, &tenant.cancel).await?;
         Ok(())
     }