diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
index 5353b6ab0b..63652ab19f 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
@@ -816,6 +816,10 @@ GetCurrentTransactionStopTimestamp(void)
 void
 SetCurrentStatementStartTimestamp(void)
 {
+	/* walsenders don't want to have stmt timestamps */
+	if (am_walsender)
+		return;
+
 	if (!IsParallelWorker())
 		stmtStartTimestamp = GetCurrentTimestamp();
 	else