diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index 087b6be..2bb3acc 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -5242,7 +5242,11 @@ exitArchiveRecovery(TimeLineID endTLI, XLogRecPtr endOfLog)
 		 */
 		tmpfname = XLogFileCopy(NULL, xlogfname, endOfLog % XLOG_SEG_SIZE);
 		if (!InstallXLogFileSegment(&endLogSegNo, tmpfname, false, 0, false))
+		{
+			pfree(tmpfname);
 			elog(ERROR, "InstallXLogFileSegment should not have failed");
+		}
+		pfree(tmpfname);
 	}
 	else
 	{