diff --git a/db.go b/db.go
index c3550100..f69d99f0 100644
--- a/db.go
+++ b/db.go
@@ -600,6 +600,7 @@ func (db *DB) loadIndexFromWAL() error {
 	now := time.Now().UnixNano()
 	// get a reader for WAL
 	reader := db.dataFiles.NewReader()
+	db.dataFiles.SetIsStartupTraversal(true)
 	for {
 		// if the current segment id is less than the mergeFinSegmentId,
 		// we can skip this segment because it has been merged,
@@ -656,6 +657,7 @@ func (db *DB) loadIndexFromWAL() error {
 				})
 		}
 	}
+	db.dataFiles.SetIsStartupTraversal(false)
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/db_test.go b/db_test.go
index ac017352..841de605 100644
--- a/db_test.go
+++ b/db_test.go
@@ -111,6 +111,36 @@ func TestDB_Concurrent_Put(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, count, db.index.Size())
 }
 
+func TestDB_Concurrent_Get(t *testing.T) {
+	options := DefaultOptions
+	db, err := Open(options)
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	defer destroyDB(db)
+
+	for i := 0; i < 10000; i++ {
+		err = db.Put(utils.GetTestKey(i), utils.RandomValue(128))
+		assert.Nil(t, err)
+	}
+	for i := 10000; i < 20000; i++ {
+		err = db.Put(utils.GetTestKey(i), utils.RandomValue(4096))
+		assert.Nil(t, err)
+	}
+
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(50)
+	for i := 0; i < 50; i++ {
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			db.Ascend(func(key []byte, value []byte) (bool, error) {
+				assert.NotNil(t, key)
+				assert.NotNil(t, value)
+				return true, nil
+			})
+		}()
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+}
+
 func TestDB_Ascend(t *testing.T) {
 	// Create a test database instance
 	options := DefaultOptions
@@ -791,11 +821,11 @@ func TestDB_Auto_Merge(t *testing.T) {
 
 	{
 		options.AutoMergeCronExpr = "* * * * * *" // every second
-		db, err := Open(options)
+		db2, err := Open(options)
 		assert.Nil(t, err)
 		{
 			<-time.After(time.Second * 2)
-			reader := db.dataFiles.NewReader()
+			reader := db2.dataFiles.NewReader()
 			var keyCnt int
 			for {
 				if _, _, err := reader.Next(); errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
@@ -806,6 +836,6 @@ func TestDB_Auto_Merge(t *testing.T) {
 			// after merge records are only valid data, so totally is 2000
 			assert.Equal(t, 2000, keyCnt)
 		}
-		destroyDB(db)
+		_ = db2.Close()
 	}
 }
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 2d2c8674..30d3d3dd 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ go 1.21
 
 require (
 	github.com/google/btree v1.1.2
-	github.com/rosedblabs/wal v1.3.7
+	github.com/rosedblabs/wal v1.3.8
 	github.com/valyala/bytebufferpool v1.0.0
 )
 
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 481a047d..1a853933 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 h1:4DBwDE0NGyQoBHbLQYPwSUPoCMWR5BEzIk/f1lZb
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
 github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.0 h1:kQ6Cb7aHOHTSzNVNEhmp8EcWKLb4CbiMW9h9VyIhO4E=
 github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.0/go.mod h1:eQICP3HwyT7UooqI/z+Ov+PtYAWygg1TEWWzGIFLtro=
-github.com/rosedblabs/wal v1.3.7 h1:ZB/xczf+/fEwbjbPnC/A6DLZRx0rxKgtQsWw2+SxKDg=
-github.com/rosedblabs/wal v1.3.7/go.mod h1:DFvhrmTTeiXvn2btXXT2MW9Nvu99PU0g/pKGgh0+T+o=
+github.com/rosedblabs/wal v1.3.8 h1:tErpD9JT/ICiyV3mv5l7qUH6lybn5XF1TbI0e8kvH8M=
+github.com/rosedblabs/wal v1.3.8/go.mod h1:DFvhrmTTeiXvn2btXXT2MW9Nvu99PU0g/pKGgh0+T+o=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0 h1:HtqpIVDClZ4nwg75+f6Lvsy/wHu+3BoSGCbBAcpTsTg=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0/go.mod h1:r2ic/lqez/lEtzL7wO/rwa5dbSLXVDPFyf8C91i36aY=
 github.com/valyala/bytebufferpool v1.0.0 h1:GqA5TC/0021Y/b9FG4Oi9Mr3q7XYx6KllzawFIhcdPw=
diff --git a/merge.go b/merge.go
index 90031032..7fb0dace 100644
--- a/merge.go
+++ b/merge.go
@@ -335,6 +335,7 @@ func (db *DB) loadIndexFromHintFile() error {
 
 	// read all the hint records from the hint file
 	reader := hintFile.NewReader()
+	hintFile.SetIsStartupTraversal(true)
 	for {
 		chunk, _, err := reader.Next()
 		if err != nil {
@@ -349,5 +350,6 @@ func (db *DB) loadIndexFromHintFile() error {
 		// So just put them into the index without checking.
 		db.index.Put(key, position)
 	}
+	hintFile.SetIsStartupTraversal(false)
 	return nil
 }