diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
index 4a34c95440..e29d1bdf95 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ impl Timeline {
         Ok(results)
     }
 
-    #[cfg(any(debug_assertions, test))]
+    #[allow(unused)]
     pub(super) async fn validate_get_vectored_impl(
         &self,
         vectored_res: &Result<BTreeMap<Key, Result<Bytes, PageReconstructError>>, GetVectoredError>,