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diff --git a/src/bin/pg_rewind/file_ops.c b/src/bin/pg_rewind/file_ops.c
index b3bf091c546..55439db20ba 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_rewind/file_ops.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_rewind/file_ops.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include "common/file_perm.h"
+#include "common/file_utils.h"
#include "file_ops.h"
#include "filemap.h"
#include "pg_rewind.h"
@@ -266,6 +267,24 @@ remove_target_symlink(const char *path)
dstpath);
}
+/*
+ * Sync target data directory to ensure that modifications are safely on disk.
+ *
+ * We do this once, for the whole data directory, for performance reasons. At
+ * the end of pg_rewind's run, the kernel is likely to already have flushed
+ * most dirty buffers to disk. Additionally fsync_pgdata uses a two-pass
+ * approach (only initiating writeback in the first pass), which often reduces
+ * the overall amount of IO noticeably.
+ */
+void
+sync_target_dir(void)
+{
+ if (!do_sync || dry_run)
+ return;
+
+ fsync_pgdata(datadir_target, PG_VERSION_NUM);
+}
+
/*
* Read a file into memory. The file to be read is <datadir>/<path>.