diff --git a/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c b/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
index a21c3089e68..44740e0740e 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c,v 1.93.2.4 2007/07/08 22:23:32 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c,v 1.93.2.5 2007/07/20 16:30:05 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -911,6 +911,14 @@ smgr_redo(XLogRecPtr lsn, XLogRecord *record)
 
 		reln = smgropen(xlrec->rnode);
 
+		/*
+		 * Forcibly create relation if it doesn't exist (which suggests that
+		 * it was dropped somewhere later in the WAL sequence).  As in
+		 * XLogOpenRelation, we prefer to recreate the rel and replay the
+		 * log as best we can until the drop is seen.
+		 */
+		smgrcreate(reln, false, true);
+
 		/* Can't use smgrtruncate because it would try to xlog */
 
 		/*