diff --git a/src/backend/access/gist/gistxlog.c b/src/backend/access/gist/gistxlog.c
index fbdbb3c51f2..7a8fdd85354 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gist/gistxlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gist/gistxlog.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ gistRedoPageUpdateRecord(XLogReaderState *record)
 		char	   *begin;
 		char	   *data;
 		Size		datalen;
-		int			ninserted = 0;
+		int			ninserted PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY = 0;
 
 		data = begin = XLogRecGetBlockData(record, 0, &datalen);
 
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index f5a1599cb37..c3fe1271465 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -1905,7 +1905,7 @@ AdvanceXLInsertBuffer(XLogRecPtr upto, bool opportunistic)
 	XLogRecPtr	NewPageEndPtr = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
 	XLogRecPtr	NewPageBeginPtr;
 	XLogPageHeader NewPage;
-	int			npages = 0;
+	int			npages pg_attribute_unused() = 0;
 
 	LWLockAcquire(WALBufMappingLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
 
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/gram.y b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
index 617e577b663..24bdb86bc2c 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/gram.y
+++ b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
@@ -732,6 +732,7 @@ static Node *makeRecursiveViewSelect(char *relname, List *aliases, Node *query);
 stmtblock:	stmtmulti
 			{
 				pg_yyget_extra(yyscanner)->parsetree = $1;
+				(void) yynerrs;		/* suppress compiler warning */
 			}
 		;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/array_typanalyze.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/array_typanalyze.c
index ffe8035eb4d..e2ded3ccd47 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/array_typanalyze.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/array_typanalyze.c
@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ compute_array_stats(VacAttrStats *stats, AnalyzeAttrFetchFunc fetchfunc,
 {
 	ArrayAnalyzeExtraData *extra_data;
 	int			num_mcelem;
-	int			null_cnt = 0;
 	int			null_elem_cnt = 0;
 	int			analyzed_rows = 0;
 
@@ -320,8 +319,7 @@ compute_array_stats(VacAttrStats *stats, AnalyzeAttrFetchFunc fetchfunc,
 		value = fetchfunc(stats, array_no, &isnull);
 		if (isnull)
 		{
-			/* array is null, just count that */
-			null_cnt++;
+			/* ignore arrays that are null overall */
 			continue;
 		}