diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
index 166bc476dabf664f5cce13a7eab769e51481717d..173ea25f111d43c47d8c4ab540e30e8ae6b6d0aa 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Added that query benchmarking will only happen if its going to be logged anyway #344
+
 * Added higher_item and lower_item as public methods for acts_as_list #342 [Tobias Luetke]
 
 * Added respondence to *_before_type_cast for all attributes to return their string-state before they were type casted by the column type.
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb
index 1a2605752839eca05f2dba186f1ea29ad63aaa26..66b5962b183cbeaea8883303ae6193cdaf1b717e 100755
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ def structure_dump() end
       protected
         def log(sql, name, connection, &action)
           begin
-            if @logger.nil?
+            if @logger.nil? || @logger.level > Logger::INFO
               action.call(connection)
             else
               result = nil