diff --git a/src/test/recovery/Makefile b/src/test/recovery/Makefile
index 570bf42b58e..c60314d1955 100644
--- a/src/test/recovery/Makefile
+++ b/src/test/recovery/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-EXTRA_INSTALL=contrib/test_decoding contrib/pg_prewarm
+EXTRA_INSTALL=contrib/pg_prewarm contrib/pg_stat_statements contrib/test_decoding
 
 subdir = src/test/recovery
 top_builddir = ../../..
diff --git a/src/test/recovery/README b/src/test/recovery/README
index 3ae3758d3b8..896df0ad05b 100644
--- a/src/test/recovery/README
+++ b/src/test/recovery/README
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Running the tests
 
 NOTE: You must have given the --enable-tap-tests argument to configure.
 Also, to use "make installcheck", you must have built and installed
-contrib/pg_prewarm and contrib/test_decoding in addition to the core code.
+contrib/pg_prewarm, contrib/pg_stat_statements and contrib/test_decoding
+in addition to the core code.
 
 Run
     make check
diff --git a/src/test/recovery/t/027_stream_regress.pl b/src/test/recovery/t/027_stream_regress.pl
index 13482adbafe..255c45a4ff1 100644
--- a/src/test/recovery/t/027_stream_regress.pl
+++ b/src/test/recovery/t/027_stream_regress.pl
@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ $node_primary->init(allows_streaming => 1);
 $node_primary->adjust_conf('postgresql.conf', 'max_connections', '25');
 $node_primary->append_conf('postgresql.conf',
 	'max_prepared_transactions = 10');
+
+# Enable pg_stat_statements to force tests to do query jumbling.
+# pg_stat_statements.max should be large enough to hold all the entries
+# of the regression database.
+$node_primary->append_conf(
+	'postgresql.conf',
+	qq{shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_stat_statements'
+pg_stat_statements.max = 50000
+compute_query_id = 'regress'
+});
+
 # We'll stick with Cluster->new's small default shared_buffers, but since that
 # makes synchronized seqscans more probable, it risks changing the results of
 # some test queries.  Disable synchronized seqscans to prevent that.
@@ -106,6 +117,28 @@ command_ok(
 	[ 'diff', $outputdir . '/primary.dump', $outputdir . '/standby.dump' ],
 	'compare primary and standby dumps');
 
+# Check some data from pg_stat_statements.
+$node_primary->safe_psql('postgres', 'CREATE EXTENSION pg_stat_statements');
+# This gathers data based on the first characters for some common query types,
+# checking that reports are generated for SELECT, DMLs, and DDL queries with
+# CREATE.
+my $result = $node_primary->safe_psql(
+	'postgres',
+	qq{WITH select_stats AS
+  (SELECT upper(substr(query, 1, 6)) AS select_query
+     FROM pg_stat_statements
+     WHERE upper(substr(query, 1, 6)) IN ('SELECT', 'UPDATE',
+                                          'INSERT', 'DELETE',
+                                          'CREATE'))
+  SELECT select_query, count(select_query) > 1 AS some_rows
+    FROM select_stats
+    GROUP BY select_query ORDER BY select_query;});
+is( $result, qq(CREATE|t
+DELETE|t
+INSERT|t
+SELECT|t
+UPDATE|t), 'check contents of pg_stat_statements on regression database');
+
 $node_standby_1->stop;
 $node_primary->stop;