In the checkpoint written at the end of archive recovery, the WAL page header

was incorrectly initialized with timeline ID 0. That rendered the WAL page
unrecoverable, making a subsequent archive recovery stop at that point.
ThisTimeLineID needs to be initialized before calling AdvanceXLInsertBuffer().

This fixes bug #5011 reported by James Bardin. Backpatch to 8.4, as the bug
was introduced by the changes to use of bgwriter for writing the
end-of-archive-recovery checkpoint. Patch by Tom Lane.

src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2009, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.348 2009/08/12 20:53:30 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.349 2009/08/27 07:15:41 heikki Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -6444,6 +6444,17 @@ CreateCheckPoint(int flags)
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * An end-of-recovery checkpoint is created before anyone is allowed to
+	 * write WAL. To allow us to write the checkpoint record, temporarily
+	 * enable XLogInsertAllowed.  (This also ensures ThisTimeLineID is
+	 * initialized, which we need here and in AdvanceXLInsertBuffer.)
+	 */
+	if (flags & CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY)
+		LocalSetXLogInsertAllowed();
+
+	checkPoint.ThisTimeLineID = ThisTimeLineID;
+
 	/*
 	 * Compute new REDO record ptr = location of next XLOG record.
 	 *
@@ -6566,20 +6577,6 @@ CreateCheckPoint(int flags)
 
 	START_CRIT_SECTION();
 
-	/*
-	 * An end-of-recovery checkpoint is created before anyone is allowed to
-	 * write WAL. To allow us to write the checkpoint record, temporarily
-	 * enable XLogInsertAllowed.
-	 */
-	if (flags & CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY)
-		LocalSetXLogInsertAllowed();
-
-	/*
-	 * This needs to be done after LocalSetXLogInsertAllowed(), else
-	 * ThisTimeLineID might still be uninitialized.
-	 */
-	checkPoint.ThisTimeLineID = ThisTimeLineID;
-
 	/*
 	 * Now insert the checkpoint record into XLOG.
 	 */