diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c
index d17d660f460..a96fd236eeb 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c
@@ -680,11 +680,12 @@ XLogTruncateRelation(RelFileNode rnode, ForkNumber forkNum,
  * The caller must also make sure it doesn't read past the current replay
  * position (using GetXLogReplayRecPtr) if executing in recovery, so it
  * doesn't fail to notice that the current timeline became historical. The
- * caller must also update ThisTimeLineID with the result of
+ * caller must also ensure that currTLI is updated with the result of
  * GetXLogReplayRecPtr and must check RecoveryInProgress().
  */
 void
-XLogReadDetermineTimeline(XLogReaderState *state, XLogRecPtr wantPage, uint32 wantLength)
+XLogReadDetermineTimeline(XLogReaderState *state, XLogRecPtr wantPage,
+						  uint32 wantLength, TimeLineID currTLI)
 {
 	const XLogRecPtr lastReadPage = (state->seg.ws_segno *
 									 state->segcxt.ws_segsize + state->segoff);
@@ -712,12 +713,12 @@ XLogReadDetermineTimeline(XLogReaderState *state, XLogRecPtr wantPage, uint32 wa
 	 * just carry on. (Seeking backwards requires a check to make sure the
 	 * older page isn't on a prior timeline).
 	 *
-	 * ThisTimeLineID might've become historical since we last looked, but the
+	 * currTLI might be historical, but the
 	 * caller is required not to read past the flush limit it saw at the time
 	 * it looked up the timeline. There's nothing we can do about it if
 	 * StartupXLOG() renames it to .partial concurrently.
 	 */
-	if (state->currTLI == ThisTimeLineID && wantPage >= lastReadPage)
+	if (state->currTLI == currTLI && wantPage >= lastReadPage)
 	{
 		Assert(state->currTLIValidUntil == InvalidXLogRecPtr);
 		return;
@@ -729,7 +730,7 @@ XLogReadDetermineTimeline(XLogReaderState *state, XLogRecPtr wantPage, uint32 wa
 	 * the current segment we can just keep reading.
 	 */
 	if (state->currTLIValidUntil != InvalidXLogRecPtr &&
-		state->currTLI != ThisTimeLineID &&
+		state->currTLI != currTLI &&
 		state->currTLI != 0 &&
 		((wantPage + wantLength) / state->segcxt.ws_segsize) <
 		(state->currTLIValidUntil / state->segcxt.ws_segsize))
@@ -752,7 +753,7 @@ XLogReadDetermineTimeline(XLogReaderState *state, XLogRecPtr wantPage, uint32 wa
 		 * We need to re-read the timeline history in case it's been changed
 		 * by a promotion or replay from a cascaded replica.
 		 */
-		List	   *timelineHistory = readTimeLineHistory(ThisTimeLineID);
+		List	   *timelineHistory = readTimeLineHistory(currTLI);
 		XLogRecPtr	endOfSegment;
 
 		endOfSegment = ((wantPage / state->segcxt.ws_segsize) + 1) *
@@ -830,7 +831,7 @@ read_local_xlog_page(XLogReaderState *state, XLogRecPtr targetPagePtr,
 {
 	XLogRecPtr	read_upto,
 				loc;
-	TimeLineID	tli;
+	TimeLineID	tli = ThisTimeLineID;
 	int			count;
 	WALReadError errinfo;
 
@@ -850,8 +851,7 @@ read_local_xlog_page(XLogReaderState *state, XLogRecPtr targetPagePtr,
 		if (!RecoveryInProgress())
 			read_upto = GetFlushRecPtr();
 		else
-			read_upto = GetXLogReplayRecPtr(&ThisTimeLineID);
-		tli = ThisTimeLineID;
+			read_upto = GetXLogReplayRecPtr(&tli);
 
 		/*
 		 * Check which timeline to get the record from.
@@ -877,9 +877,9 @@ read_local_xlog_page(XLogReaderState *state, XLogRecPtr targetPagePtr,
 		 * standby whose primary gets promoted while we're decoding, so a
 		 * one-off ERROR isn't too bad.
 		 */
-		XLogReadDetermineTimeline(state, targetPagePtr, reqLen);
+		XLogReadDetermineTimeline(state, targetPagePtr, reqLen, tli);
 
-		if (state->currTLI == ThisTimeLineID)
+		if (state->currTLI == tli)
 		{
 
 			if (loc <= read_upto)
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/walsender.c b/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
index 23baa4498af..bbff969ab52 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ logical_read_xlog_page(XLogReaderState *state, XLogRecPtr targetPagePtr, int req
 	WALReadError errinfo;
 	XLogSegNo	segno;
 
-	XLogReadDetermineTimeline(state, targetPagePtr, reqLen);
+	XLogReadDetermineTimeline(state, targetPagePtr, reqLen, ThisTimeLineID);
 	sendTimeLineIsHistoric = (state->currTLI != ThisTimeLineID);
 	sendTimeLine = state->currTLI;
 	sendTimeLineValidUpto = state->currTLIValidUntil;
diff --git a/src/include/access/xlogutils.h b/src/include/access/xlogutils.h
index 9ac602b674d..5c56c6beac3 100644
--- a/src/include/access/xlogutils.h
+++ b/src/include/access/xlogutils.h
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ extern void wal_segment_open(XLogReaderState *state,
 extern void wal_segment_close(XLogReaderState *state);
 
 extern void XLogReadDetermineTimeline(XLogReaderState *state,
-									  XLogRecPtr wantPage, uint32 wantLength);
+									  XLogRecPtr wantPage, uint32 wantLength,
+									  TimeLineID currTLI);
 
 extern void WALReadRaiseError(WALReadError *errinfo);