diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 2eb2ea70b..79c650c5d 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ Contributors:
     * fbdb
     * Charbel Jacquin (charbeljc)
     * Devadathan M B (devadathanmb)
+    * Charalampos Stratakis
 
 Creator:
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c3268cd8c..6f3d28e4c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ urls = { Homepage = "https://pgcli.com" }
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dependencies = [
     "pgspecial>=2.0.0",
-    "click >= 4.1,<8.1.8",
+    # Click 8.1.8 through 8.3.0 have broken pager invocation for multi-argument PAGER values, which causes behave test failures.
+    "click >= 4.1, != 8.1.8, != 8.2.*, != 8.3.0, < 9",
     "Pygments>=2.0",       # Pygments has to be Capitalcased.
     # We still need to use pt-2 unless pt-3 released on Fedora32
     # see: https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/pull/1197