diff --git a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
index 88a60aa12af..559970fe67b 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
@@ -7175,6 +7175,16 @@ heap_xlog_newpage(XLogRecPtr lsn, XLogRecord *record)
 	}
 
 	MarkBufferDirty(buffer);
+
+	/*
+	 * At the end of crash recovery the init forks of unlogged relations are
+	 * copied, without going through shared buffers. So we need to force the
+	 * on-disk state of init forks to always be in sync with the state in
+	 * shared buffers.
+	 */
+	if (xlrec->forknum == INIT_FORKNUM)
+		FlushOneBuffer(buffer);
+
 	UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
index 0b03f609f52..a70eed23771 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
@@ -2549,6 +2549,27 @@ FlushDatabaseBuffers(Oid dbid)
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * Flush a previously, shared or exclusively, locked and pinned buffer to the
+ * OS.
+ */
+void
+FlushOneBuffer(Buffer buffer)
+{
+	volatile BufferDesc *bufHdr;
+
+	/* currently not needed, but no fundamental reason not to support */
+	Assert(!BufferIsLocal(buffer));
+
+	Assert(BufferIsPinned(buffer));
+
+	bufHdr = &BufferDescriptors[buffer - 1];
+
+	LWLockHeldByMe(bufHdr->content_lock);
+
+	FlushBuffer(bufHdr, NULL);
+}
+
 /*
  * ReleaseBuffer -- release the pin on a buffer
  */
diff --git a/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h b/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
index 44a5f642ee1..e28451263ec 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ extern void CheckPointBuffers(int flags);
 extern BlockNumber BufferGetBlockNumber(Buffer buffer);
 extern BlockNumber RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork(Relation relation,
 								ForkNumber forkNum);
+extern void FlushOneBuffer(Buffer buffer);
 extern void FlushRelationBuffers(Relation rel);
 extern void FlushDatabaseBuffers(Oid dbid);
 extern void DropRelFileNodeBuffers(RelFileNodeBackend rnode,