diff --git a/psycopg/pqpath.c b/psycopg/pqpath.c
index 56dc4e03..a229943a 100644
--- a/psycopg/pqpath.c
+++ b/psycopg/pqpath.c
@@ -761,8 +761,6 @@ pq_execute(cursorObject *curs, const char *query, int async)
     pthread_mutex_unlock(&(curs->conn->lock));
     Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS;
 
-    conn_notice_process(curs->conn);
-
     /* if the execute was sync, we call pq_fetch() immediately,
        to respect the old DBAPI-2.0 compatible behaviour */
     if (async == 0) {
diff --git a/tests/test_async.py b/tests/test_async.py
index 6f3ec4c0..a4a11b9b 100755
--- a/tests/test_async.py
+++ b/tests/test_async.py
@@ -388,6 +388,15 @@ class AsyncTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.wait(cur2)
         self.assertEquals(cur2.fetchone()[0], 1)
 
+    def test_notices(self):
+        del self.conn.notices[:]
+        cur = self.conn.cursor()
+        cur.execute("create temp table chatty (id serial primary key);")
+        self.wait(cur)
+        self.assertEqual("CREATE TABLE", cur.statusmessage)
+        self.assert_(self.conn.notices)
+
+
 def test_suite():
     return unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromName(__name__)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_connection.py b/tests/test_connection.py
index 325d18d9..277616b4 100644
--- a/tests/test_connection.py
+++ b/tests/test_connection.py
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ class ConnectionTests(unittest.TestCase):
         # now the isolation level should be equal to saved one
         self.assertEqual(conn.isolation_level, level)
 
+    def test_notices(self):
+        conn = self.connect()
+        cur = conn.cursor()
+        cur.execute("create temp table chatty (id serial primary key);")
+        self.assertEqual("CREATE TABLE", cur.statusmessage)
+        self.assert_(conn.notices)
+        conn.close()
 
 def test_suite():
     return unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromName(__name__)