diff --git a/src/bin/pg_walsummary/pg_walsummary.c b/src/bin/pg_walsummary/pg_walsummary.c
index ad674b7646..07195a603e 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_walsummary/pg_walsummary.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_walsummary/pg_walsummary.c
@@ -134,12 +134,6 @@ dump_one_relation(ws_options *opt, RelFileLocator *rlocator,
 	BlockNumber startblock = InvalidBlockNumber;
 	BlockNumber endblock = InvalidBlockNumber;
 
-	/* Dump limit block, if any. */
-	if (limit_block != InvalidBlockNumber)
-		printf("TS %u, DB %u, REL %u, FORK %s: limit %u\n",
-			   rlocator->spcOid, rlocator->dbOid, rlocator->relNumber,
-			   forkNames[forknum], limit_block);
-
 	/* If we haven't allocated a block buffer yet, do that now. */
 	if (block_buffer == NULL)
 		block_buffer = palloc_array(BlockNumber, block_buffer_size);
@@ -174,6 +168,12 @@ dump_one_relation(ws_options *opt, RelFileLocator *rlocator,
 	if (opt->quiet)
 		return;
 
+	/* Dump limit block, if any. */
+	if (limit_block != InvalidBlockNumber)
+		printf("TS %u, DB %u, REL %u, FORK %s: limit %u\n",
+			   rlocator->spcOid, rlocator->dbOid, rlocator->relNumber,
+			   forkNames[forknum], limit_block);
+
 	/*
 	 * Sort the returned block numbers. If the block reference table was using
 	 * the bitmap representation for a given chunk, the block numbers in that
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_walsummary/t/002_blocks.pl b/src/bin/pg_walsummary/t/002_blocks.pl
index bebc1137c0..19689e71da 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_walsummary/t/002_blocks.pl
+++ b/src/bin/pg_walsummary/t/002_blocks.pl
@@ -46,6 +46,22 @@ SELECT EXISTS (
 EOM
 ok($result, "WAL summarization caught up after insert");
 
+# --quiet must also suppress limit blocks caused by relation creation.
+my $summary_dir = $node1->data_dir . '/pg_wal/summaries';
+my @summaries = map { "$summary_dir/$_" }
+  sort grep { /^[0-9A-F]{40}\.summary$/ } slurp_dir($summary_dir);
+command_like(
+	[ 'pg_walsummary', @summaries ],
+	qr/: limit 0$/m,
+	'relation creation produces limit blocks');
+
+command_checks_all(
+	[ 'pg_walsummary', '-q', @summaries ],
+	0,
+	[qr/\A\z/],
+	[qr/\A\z/],
+	"-q suppresses all output");
+
 # The WAL summarizer should have generated some IO statistics.
 $node1->poll_query_until(
 	'postgres',