diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 49fc56df8768d9b28b25f9794a55809dbc12230e..245f4ec61db71b935e0acccae311de051ccf0697 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
   numbered levels will be placed later in the db_paths vector.
 * Potentially big performance improvements if you're using RocksDB with lots of column families (100-1000)
 
+### Public API changes
+* Deprecated skip_log_error_on_recovery option
+
 ### 3.9.0 (12/8/2014)
 
 ### New Features
diff --git a/db/db_impl.cc b/db/db_impl.cc
index e529db3c7affdad301db0f491bf7343ea7cfa830..dfe66eeab2d896cddb10f99136ed30d07c69327d 100644
--- a/db/db_impl.cc
+++ b/db/db_impl.cc
@@ -842,8 +842,7 @@ Status DBImpl::RecoverLogFiles(const std::vector<uint64_t>& log_numbers,
     Env* env;
     Logger* info_log;
     const char* fname;
-    Status* status;  // nullptr if db_options_.paranoid_checks==false or
-                     //            db_options_.skip_log_error_on_recovery==true
+    Status* status;  // nullptr if db_options_.paranoid_checks==false
     virtual void Corruption(size_t bytes, const Status& s) {
       Log(InfoLogLevel::WARN_LEVEL,
           info_log, "%s%s: dropping %d bytes; %s",
@@ -888,10 +887,7 @@ Status DBImpl::RecoverLogFiles(const std::vector<uint64_t>& log_numbers,
     reporter.env = env_;
     reporter.info_log = db_options_.info_log.get();
     reporter.fname = fname.c_str();
-    reporter.status =
-        (db_options_.paranoid_checks && !db_options_.skip_log_error_on_recovery
-             ? &status
-             : nullptr);
+    reporter.status = (db_options_.paranoid_checks) ? &status : nullptr;
     // We intentially make log::Reader do checksumming even if
     // paranoid_checks==false so that corruptions cause entire commits
     // to be skipped instead of propagating bad information (like overly
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/options.h b/include/rocksdb/options.h
index 298ec6aee6985b658e2f6a8bcb1715ad3113caf9..75625abccc2b39161a337ea2b4f6cacadd4ad9da 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/options.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/options.h
@@ -850,9 +850,7 @@ struct DBOptions {
   // Disable child process inherit open files. Default: true
   bool is_fd_close_on_exec;
 
-  // Skip log corruption error on recovery (If client is ok with
-  // losing most recent changes)
-  // Default: false
+  // DEPRECATED -- this options is no longer used
   bool skip_log_error_on_recovery;
 
   // if not zero, dump rocksdb.stats to LOG every stats_dump_period_sec
diff --git a/util/options.cc b/util/options.cc
index 085df053d2dcd9fc1f748ded6aeef2ddd6b5fd1f..75307f13f234e16892e108ae9c426fbf6967d269 100644
--- a/util/options.cc
+++ b/util/options.cc
@@ -333,8 +333,6 @@ void DBOptions::Dump(Logger* log) const {
         allow_mmap_writes);
     Log(log, "                     Options.is_fd_close_on_exec: %d",
         is_fd_close_on_exec);
-    Log(log, "              Options.skip_log_error_on_recovery: %d",
-        skip_log_error_on_recovery);
     Log(log, "                   Options.stats_dump_period_sec: %u",
         stats_dump_period_sec);
     Log(log, "                   Options.advise_random_on_open: %d",