diff --git a/storage/rocksdb/rdb_datadic.cc b/storage/rocksdb/rdb_datadic.cc
index fd5424c2c230a..43b67210a12f8 100644
--- a/storage/rocksdb/rdb_datadic.cc
+++ b/storage/rocksdb/rdb_datadic.cc
@@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ static int rdb_unpack_floating_point(
   // On little-endian, swap the bytes around
   swap_func(dst, tmp);
 #else
-  static_assert(swap_func == nullptr, "Assuming that no swapping is needed.");
+  DBUG_ASSERT(swap_func == nullptr);
 #endif
 
   return UNPACK_SUCCESS;