diff --git a/src/backend/cdb/cdbdistributedsnapshot.c b/src/backend/cdb/cdbdistributedsnapshot.c
index 698171a5c80e9c589d0dac5e6347aabad6c8c424..f64587835708709d768f23f7a082697234a43244 100644
--- a/src/backend/cdb/cdbdistributedsnapshot.c
+++ b/src/backend/cdb/cdbdistributedsnapshot.c
@@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ localXidSatisfiesAnyDistributedSnapshot(TransactionId localXid)
 	if (!IsUnderPostmaster || !IsNormalProcessingMode())
 		return false;
 
+	/*
+	 * During upgrade, there is no distributed system to query, and no way a
+	 * distributed transaction could be looking at a tuple right now.
+	 */
+	if (IsBinaryUpgrade)
+		return false;
+
 	/*
 	 * If don't have snapshot, can't check the global visibility and hence
 	 * return not to perform clean the tuple.