diff --git a/pkg/index/corpus.go b/pkg/index/corpus.go
index 4a86129b5..1a80a4690 100644
--- a/pkg/index/corpus.go
+++ b/pkg/index/corpus.go
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ func (crashStorage) Find(start, end string) sorted.Iterator {
 
 var corpusMergeFunc = map[string]func(c *Corpus, k, v []byte) error{
 	"have":        nil, // redundant with "meta"
+	"recpn":       nil, // unneeded.
 	"meta":        (*Corpus).mergeMetaRow,
 	"signerkeyid": (*Corpus).mergeSignerKeyIdRow,
 	"claim":       (*Corpus).mergeClaimRow,
@@ -686,3 +687,9 @@ func (c *Corpus) GetImageInfo(fileRef blob.Ref) (ii camtypes.ImageInfo, err erro
 	}
 	return
 }
+
+// SetVerboseCorpusLogging controls corpus setup verbosity. It's on by default
+// but used to disable verbose logging in tests.
+func SetVerboseCorpusLogging(v bool) {
+	logCorpusStats = v
+}
diff --git a/pkg/index/corpus_bench_test.go b/pkg/index/corpus_bench_test.go
index 81a2bff67..578988d75 100644
--- a/pkg/index/corpus_bench_test.go
+++ b/pkg/index/corpus_bench_test.go
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ func BenchmarkCorpusFromStorage(b *testing.B) {
 			id.SetAttribute(pn, "camliContent", fileRef.String())
 		}
 	})
-	defer index.ExpSetLogCorpusStats(true)
-	index.ExpSetLogCorpusStats(false)
+	defer index.SetVerboseCorpusLogging(true)
+	index.SetVerboseCorpusLogging(false)
 
 	b.ResetTimer()
 
diff --git a/pkg/index/export_test.go b/pkg/index/export_test.go
index 754134b8c..1ddc21722 100644
--- a/pkg/index/export_test.go
+++ b/pkg/index/export_test.go
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ func ExpUnreverseTimeString(s string) string {
 	return unreverseTimeString(s)
 }
 
-func ExpSetLogCorpusStats(v bool) { logCorpusStats = v }
-
 func ExpNewCorpus() *Corpus {
 	return newCorpus()
 }