diff --git a/pkg/sql/sem/builtins/generator_builtins.go b/pkg/sql/sem/builtins/generator_builtins.go
index 5d2da7b7cd60..495d5ce75675 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/sem/builtins/generator_builtins.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/sem/builtins/generator_builtins.go
@@ -1834,12 +1834,11 @@ type checkConsistencyGenerator struct {
 	mode               roachpb.ChecksumMode
 
 	descs []roachpb.RangeDescriptor
-	// remainingRows is populated by Start(). Each Next() call peels of the first
+	// remainingRows is populated by Next() call peels of the first
 	// row and moves it to curRow. When empty, consumes from 'descs' to produce
 	// more rows.
-	remainingRows []roachpb.CheckConsistencyResponse_Result
-	curDuration   time.Duration
-	curRow        roachpb.CheckConsistencyResponse_Result
+	remainingRows      []roachpb.CheckConsistencyResponse_Result
+	lastRefillDuration time.Duration
 }
 
 var _ eval.ValueGenerator = &checkConsistencyGenerator{}
@@ -1926,47 +1925,58 @@ func (c *checkConsistencyGenerator) Start(ctx context.Context, _ *kv.Txn) error
 		}
 		c.descs = append(c.descs, desc)
 	}
+	// Dummy element that the first call to .Next() can peel off.
+	c.remainingRows = make([]roachpb.CheckConsistencyResponse_Result, 1)
 	return nil
 }
 
-// Next is part of the tree.ValueGenerator interface.
-func (c *checkConsistencyGenerator) Next(ctx context.Context) (bool, error) {
-	tBegin := timeutil.Now()
-	if len(c.remainingRows) == 0 {
-		if len(c.descs) == 0 {
-			return false, nil
-		}
-		// NB: peeling off the spans one by one allows this generator to produce
-		// rows in a streaming manner. If we called CheckConsistency(c.from, c.to)
-		// we would only get the result once all checks have completed and it will
-		// generally be a lot more brittle since an error will completely wipe out
-		// the result set.
-		desc := c.descs[0]
-		c.descs = c.descs[1:]
-		resp, err := c.consistencyChecker.CheckConsistency(
-			ctx, desc.StartKey.AsRawKey(), desc.EndKey.AsRawKey(), c.mode,
-		)
-		if err != nil {
-			// Emit result as a row, and keep going.
-			c.remainingRows = []roachpb.CheckConsistencyResponse_Result{
-				{
-					RangeID:  desc.RangeID,
-					StartKey: desc.StartKey,
-					Status:   roachpb.CheckConsistencyResponse_RANGE_INDETERMINATE,
-					Detail:   err.Error(),
-				},
-			}
-		} else {
-			// NB: this could have more than one entry, if a range split in the
-			// meantime.
-			c.remainingRows = resp.Result
+// maybeRefillRows checks whether c.remainingRows is empty and if so, consumes
+// the first element of c.descs and runs a consistency check on it, appending to
+// c.remainingRows with the result. If there are no descriptors or there are
+// remaining rows, this is a no-op. Otherwise, this will always populate
+// c.remainingRows with at least one element.
+func (c *checkConsistencyGenerator) maybeRefillRows(ctx context.Context) {
+	if len(c.descs) == 0 || len(c.remainingRows) > 0 {
+		// Nothing to do.
+		return
+	}
+	defer func(tBegin time.Time) {
+		c.lastRefillDuration = timeutil.Since(tBegin)
+	}(timeutil.Now())
+	// NB: peeling off the spans one by one allows this generator to produce
+	// rows in a streaming manner. If we called CheckConsistency(c.from, c.to)
+	// we would only get the result once all checks have completed and it will
+	// generally be a lot more brittle since an error will completely wipe out
+	// the result set.
+	desc := c.descs[0]
+	c.descs = c.descs[1:]
+	resp, err := c.consistencyChecker.CheckConsistency(
+		ctx, desc.StartKey.AsRawKey(), desc.EndKey.AsRawKey(), c.mode,
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		// Emit result as a row, and keep going.
+		c.remainingRows = []roachpb.CheckConsistencyResponse_Result{
+			{
+				RangeID:  desc.RangeID,
+				StartKey: desc.StartKey,
+				Status:   roachpb.CheckConsistencyResponse_RANGE_INDETERMINATE,
+				Detail:   err.Error(),
+			},
 		}
+		return
 	}
 
-	c.curDuration = timeutil.Since(tBegin)
-	c.curRow = c.remainingRows[0]
+	// NB: this could have more than one entry, if a range split in the
+	// meantime.
+	c.remainingRows = resp.Result
+}
+
+// Next is part of the tree.ValueGenerator interface.
+func (c *checkConsistencyGenerator) Next(ctx context.Context) (bool, error) {
+	// Invariant: len(c.remainingRows) > 0.
 	c.remainingRows = c.remainingRows[1:]
-	return true, nil
+	c.maybeRefillRows(ctx) // if necessary, try to repopulate remainingRows
+	return len(c.remainingRows) > 0, nil
 }
 
 // Values is part of the tree.ValueGenerator interface.
@@ -1977,12 +1987,12 @@ func (c *checkConsistencyGenerator) Values() (tree.Datums, error) {
 		},
 	}
 	return tree.Datums{
-		tree.NewDInt(tree.DInt(c.curRow.RangeID)),
-		tree.NewDBytes(tree.DBytes(c.curRow.StartKey)),
-		tree.NewDString(roachpb.Key(c.curRow.StartKey).String()),
-		tree.NewDString(c.curRow.Status.String()),
-		tree.NewDString(c.curRow.Detail),
-		tree.NewDInterval(duration.MakeDuration(c.curDuration.Nanoseconds(), 0 /* days */, 0 /* months */), intervalMeta),
+		tree.NewDInt(tree.DInt(c.remainingRows[0].RangeID)),
+		tree.NewDBytes(tree.DBytes(c.remainingRows[0].StartKey)),
+		tree.NewDString(roachpb.Key(c.remainingRows[0].StartKey).String()),
+		tree.NewDString(c.remainingRows[0].Status.String()),
+		tree.NewDString(c.remainingRows[0].Detail),
+		tree.NewDInterval(duration.MakeDuration(c.lastRefillDuration.Nanoseconds(), 0 /* days */, 0 /* months */), intervalMeta),
 	}, nil
 }