diff --git a/src/backend/access/gist/gistxlog.c b/src/backend/access/gist/gistxlog.c
index 3b28f546465..4daf3ba2124 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gist/gistxlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gist/gistxlog.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ 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 443ee90b5a1..36e077045b9 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -2106,7 +2106,7 @@ 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 9de9dbd8a8a..e820606338c 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/gram.y
+++ b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
@@ -789,6 +789,7 @@ 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 eafb94b697e..f8fd6cb8cb5 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/array_typanalyze.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/array_typanalyze.c
@@ -218,7 +218,6 @@ 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;
 
@@ -322,8 +321,7 @@ 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;
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/jsonpath_gram.y b/src/backend/utils/adt/jsonpath_gram.y
index 99a995d0b1c..7ecbd918595 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/jsonpath_gram.y
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/jsonpath_gram.y
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ result:
 										*result = palloc(sizeof(JsonPathParseResult));
 										(*result)->expr = $2;
 										(*result)->lax = $1;
+										(void) yynerrs;
 									}
 	| /* EMPTY */					{ *result = NULL; }
 	;
diff --git a/src/bin/pgbench/exprparse.y b/src/bin/pgbench/exprparse.y
index 17c9ec32c50..250064c23be 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgbench/exprparse.y
+++ b/src/bin/pgbench/exprparse.y
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ static PgBenchExpr *make_case(yyscan_t yyscanner, PgBenchExprList *when_then_lis
 
 %%
 
-result: expr				{ expr_parse_result = $1; }
+result: expr				{
+								expr_parse_result = $1;
+								(void) yynerrs; /* suppress compiler warning */
+							}
 
 elist:						{ $$ = NULL; }
 	| expr					{ $$ = make_elist($1, NULL); }