diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
index 5b126d516b..cfeab77598 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
@@ -1285,6 +1285,10 @@ impl Timeline {
         reconstruct_state: &mut ValuesReconstructState,
         ctx: &RequestContext,
     ) -> Result<BTreeMap<Key, Result<Bytes, PageReconstructError>>, GetVectoredError> {
+        if query.is_empty() {
+            return Ok(BTreeMap::default());
+        }
+
         let read_path = if self.conf.enable_read_path_debugging || ctx.read_path_debug() {
             Some(ReadPath::new(
                 query.total_keyspace(),