diff --git a/src/gausskernel/storage/mot/core/src/mot.conf b/src/gausskernel/storage/mot/core/src/mot.conf
index ca9eac831..d33754735 100644
--- a/src/gausskernel/storage/mot/core/src/mot.conf
+++ b/src/gausskernel/storage/mot/core/src/mot.conf
@@ -40,13 +40,10 @@
 # REDO LOG
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-# Specifies whether to use redo-log for durability.
-#
-#enable_redo_log = true
-
 # Specifies whether to use group commit.
 # This option is relevant only when openGauss is configured to use synchronous commit (i.e. when
 # postgresql.conf has synchronous_commit configured to any value other than 'off').
+#
 #enable_group_commit = false
 
 # Defines the group size and timeout when group commit is enabled.
@@ -58,7 +55,7 @@
 #group_commit_size = 16
 #group_commit_timeout = 10 ms
 
-# Specifies the number of redo log buffers to use for asynchronous commit mode.
+# Specifies the number of redo-log buffers to use for asynchronous commit mode.
 # Allowed range of values for this configuration is [8, 128]. The size of one buffer is 128 MB.
 # This option is relevant only when openGauss is configured to use asynchronous commit (i.e. when
 # postgresql.conf has synchronous_commit configured to 'off').
@@ -69,10 +66,6 @@
 # CHECKPOINT
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-# Specifies whether to use periodic checkpoint.
-#
-#enable_checkpoint = true
-
 # Specifies the directory in which checkpoint data is to be stored.
 # The default location is in the data folder of each data node.
 #
@@ -122,7 +115,7 @@
 
 # Configures the sections included in the periodic statistics reports. If none is configured then
 # the statistics report is suppressed.
-# The log recovery statistics contains various redo log recovery metrics.
+# The log recovery statistics contains various redo-log recovery metrics.
 # The DB session statistics contains transaction events such commits, rollback etc.
 # The network statistics contains connection/disconnection events.
 # The log statistics contains details regarding redo-log.
@@ -172,6 +165,11 @@
 
 # Specifies whether to use NUMA-aware memory allocation.
 # When disabled, all affinity configurations are disabled as well.
+# MOT engine assumes that all the available NUMA nodes have memory. If the machine has some
+# special configuration in which some of the NUMA nodes have no memory, then the MOT engine
+# initialization and hence the database server startup will fail. In such machines, it is
+# recommended that this configuration value be set to false, in order to prevent startup
+# failures and let the MOT engine to function normally without using NUMA-aware memory allocation.
 #
 #enable_numa = true
 
diff --git a/src/gausskernel/storage/mot/core/src/system/mot_configuration.cpp b/src/gausskernel/storage/mot/core/src/system/mot_configuration.cpp
index 63cce2b0d..071164972 100644
--- a/src/gausskernel/storage/mot/core/src/system/mot_configuration.cpp
+++ b/src/gausskernel/storage/mot/core/src/system/mot_configuration.cpp
@@ -715,6 +715,14 @@ void MOTConfiguration::LoadConfig()
 
     // Checkpoint configuration
     UPDATE_BOOL_CFG(m_enableCheckpoint, "enable_checkpoint", DEFAULT_ENABLE_CHECKPOINT);
+
+    if (!m_enableCheckpoint && m_enableRedoLog) {
+        if (m_suppressLog == 0) {
+            MOT_LOG_WARN("Disabling redo_log forcibly as the checkpoint is disabled");
+        }
+        UpdateBoolConfigItem(m_enableRedoLog, false, "enable_redo_log");
+    }
+
     UPDATE_STRING_CFG(m_checkpointDir, "checkpoint_dir", DEFAULT_CHECKPOINT_DIR);
     UPDATE_ABS_MEM_CFG(m_checkpointSegThreshold,
         "checkpoint_segsize",