diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
index 3894f4a270..20454d4040 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ static bool IsCheckpointOnSchedule(double progress);
 static bool ImmediateCheckpointRequested(void);
 static bool CompactCheckpointerRequestQueue(void);
 static void UpdateSharedMemoryConfig(void);
+static void pgstat_send_checkpointer(void);
 
 /* Signal handlers */
 static void ReqCheckpointHandler(SIGNAL_ARGS);
@@ -495,17 +496,8 @@ CheckpointerMain(void)
 		/* Check for archive_timeout and switch xlog files if necessary. */
 		CheckArchiveTimeout();
 
-		/*
-		 * Send off activity statistics to the stats collector.  (The reason
-		 * why we re-use bgwriter-related code for this is that the bgwriter
-		 * and checkpointer used to be just one process.  It's probably not
-		 * worth the trouble to split the stats support into two independent
-		 * stats message types.)
-		 */
-		pgstat_send_bgwriter();
-
-		/* Send WAL statistics to the stats collector. */
-		pgstat_report_wal();
+		/* Send the statistics for the checkpointer to the stats collector */
+		pgstat_send_checkpointer();
 
 		/*
 		 * If any checkpoint flags have been set, redo the loop to handle the
@@ -572,8 +564,18 @@ HandleCheckpointerInterrupts(void)
 		 * back to the sigsetjmp block above
 		 */
 		ExitOnAnyError = true;
-		/* Close down the database */
+
+		/*
+		 * Close down the database.
+		 *
+		 * Since ShutdownXLOG() creates restartpoint or checkpoint and updates
+		 * the statistics, increment the checkpoint request and send the
+		 * statistics to the stats collector.
+		 */
+		BgWriterStats.m_requested_checkpoints++;
 		ShutdownXLOG(0, 0);
+		pgstat_send_checkpointer();
+
 		/* Normal exit from the checkpointer is here */
 		proc_exit(0);			/* done */
 	}
@@ -1335,3 +1337,22 @@ FirstCallSinceLastCheckpoint(void)
 
 	return FirstCall;
 }
+
+/*
+ * Send the statistics for the checkpointer to the stats collector
+ */
+static void
+pgstat_send_checkpointer(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Send off activity statistics to the stats collector.  (The reason why
+	 * we re-use bgwriter-related code for this is that the bgwriter and
+	 * checkpointer used to be just one process.  It's probably not worth the
+	 * trouble to split the stats support into two independent stats message
+	 * types.)
+	 */
+	pgstat_send_bgwriter();
+
+	/* Send WAL statistics to the stats collector. */
+	pgstat_report_wal();
+}