diff --git a/doc/xml/release.xml b/doc/xml/release.xml
index cdb649962..4fedeb6ba 100644
--- a/doc/xml/release.xml
+++ b/doc/xml/release.xml
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@
     <release-list>
         <release date="XXXX-XX-XX" version="2.10dev" title="UNDER DEVELOPMENT">
             <release-core-list>
+                <release-bug-list>
+                    <release-item>
+                        <release-item-contributor-list>
+                            <release-item-ideator id="james.chanco.jr"/>
+                        </release-item-contributor-list>
+
+                        <p>Fix check for improperly configured <br-option>pg-path</br-option>.</p>
+                    </release-item>
+                </release-bug-list>
+
                 <release-development-list>
                     <release-item>
                         <p>JSON improvements.  Optimize parser implementation.  Make the renderer more null tolerant.</p>
@@ -6301,6 +6311,11 @@
             <contributor-id type="github">Edib</contributor-id>
         </contributor>
 
+        <contributor id="james.chanco.jr">
+            <contributor-name-display>James Chanco Jr</contributor-name-display>
+            <contributor-id type="github">jameschancojr</contributor-id>
+        </contributor>
+
         <contributor id="jan.wieck">
             <contributor-name-display>Jan Wieck</contributor-name-display>
             <contributor-id type="github">wieck</contributor-id>
diff --git a/lib/pgBackRest/Db.pm b/lib/pgBackRest/Db.pm
index c74cbac73..273492280 100644
--- a/lib/pgBackRest/Db.pm
+++ b/lib/pgBackRest/Db.pm
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ sub versionGet
     }
 
     # Get version and pg-path from
-    (my $strVersionNum, $self->{strDbPath}) =
+    my ($strVersionNum, $strDbPath) =
         $self->executeSqlRow(
             "select (select setting from pg_settings where name = 'server_version_num'), " .
                 " (select setting from pg_settings where name = 'data_directory')");
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ sub versionGet
     (
         $strOperation,
         {name => 'strDbVersion', value => $self->{strDbVersion}},
-        {name => 'strDbPath', value => $self->{strDbPath}}
+        {name => 'strDbPath', value => $strDbPath}
     );
 }
 
diff --git a/src/perl/embed.auto.c b/src/perl/embed.auto.c
index 68625aef3..74f6e5330 100644
--- a/src/perl/embed.auto.c
+++ b/src/perl/embed.auto.c
@@ -9349,7 +9349,7 @@ static const EmbeddedModule embeddedModule[] =
             "return $self->{strDbVersion}, $self->{strDbPath};\n"
             "}\n"
             "\n\n"
-            "(my $strVersionNum, $self->{strDbPath}) =\n"
+            "my ($strVersionNum, $strDbPath) =\n"
             "$self->executeSqlRow(\n"
             "\"select (select setting from pg_settings where name = 'server_version_num'), \" .\n"
             "\" (select setting from pg_settings where name = 'data_directory')\");\n"
@@ -9372,7 +9372,7 @@ static const EmbeddedModule embeddedModule[] =
             "(\n"
             "$strOperation,\n"
             "{name => 'strDbVersion', value => $self->{strDbVersion}},\n"
-            "{name => 'strDbPath', value => $self->{strDbPath}}\n"
+            "{name => 'strDbPath', value => $strDbPath}\n"
             ");\n"
             "}\n"
             "\n\n\n\n"