diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index aecede149cf8852f354d5cac63ff219ed9ab2c57..f13f9c1fa5e271709a137d517533284c84253afd 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -631,8 +631,6 @@ typedef struct XLogCtlData
 	TimeLineID	replayEndTLI;
 	/* timestamp of last COMMIT/ABORT record replayed (or being replayed) */
 	TimestampTz recoveryLastXTime;
-	/* current effective recovery target timeline */
-	TimeLineID	RecoveryTargetTLI;
 
 	/*
 	 * timestamp of when we started replaying the current chunk of WAL data,