diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
index 00811e2145f4304e76cf70256b2c3c8de6990523..56bace1187bc01c92faab454cb1742203a89dff1 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/stats.out
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ SHOW track_counts;  -- must be on
  on
 (1 row)
 
+-- ensure that both seqscan and indexscan plans are allowed
+SET enable_seqscan TO on;
+SET enable_indexscan TO on;
+-- for the moment, we don't want index-only scans here
+SET enable_indexonlyscan TO off;
 -- wait to let any prior tests finish dumping out stats;
 -- else our messages might get lost due to contention
 SELECT pg_sleep(2.0);
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
index 4a72a949f29873a4c8c7becffcff8dd9438069c1..bb349b2dfa63e81c8f2feef4f630fcc9424254fe 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/stats.sql
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
 -- conditio sine qua non
 SHOW track_counts;  -- must be on
 
+-- ensure that both seqscan and indexscan plans are allowed
+SET enable_seqscan TO on;
+SET enable_indexscan TO on;
+-- for the moment, we don't want index-only scans here
+SET enable_indexonlyscan TO off;
+
 -- wait to let any prior tests finish dumping out stats;
 -- else our messages might get lost due to contention
 SELECT pg_sleep(2.0);