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-rw-r--r--synapse/storage/databases/main/events.py6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/storage/databases/main/events.py b/synapse/storage/databases/main/events.py
index 57489c30f1..3fcd5f5b99 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/databases/main/events.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/databases/main/events.py
@@ -197,9 +197,9 @@ class PersistEventsStore:
             )
             persist_event_counter.inc(len(events_and_contexts))
 
-            if stream < 0:
-                # backfilled events have negative stream orderings, so we don't
-                # want to set the event_persisted_position to that.
+            if not use_negative_stream_ordering:
+                # we don't want to set the event_persisted_position to a negative
+                # stream_ordering.
                 synapse.metrics.event_persisted_position.set(stream)
 
             for event, context in events_and_contexts: