diff --git a/src/backend/commands/trigger.c b/src/backend/commands/trigger.c
index 63db1a8c548..7a07f28673a 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/trigger.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/trigger.c
@@ -2503,7 +2503,7 @@ ExecBRUpdateTriggers(EState *estate, EPQState *epqstate,
 			return NULL;		/* "do nothing" */
 		}
 	}
-	if (trigtuple != fdw_trigtuple)
+	if (trigtuple != fdw_trigtuple && trigtuple != newtuple)
 		heap_freetuple(trigtuple);
 
 	if (newtuple != slottuple)
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/triggers.out b/src/test/regress/expected/triggers.out
index 6706021051a..6ca48dd9bb1 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/triggers.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/triggers.out
@@ -133,6 +133,32 @@ DROP TABLE fkeys2;
 -- select count(*) from dup17 where x = 13;
 --
 -- DROP TABLE dup17;
+-- Check behavior when trigger returns unmodified trigtuple
+create table trigtest (f1 int, f2 text);
+create trigger trigger_return_old
+	before insert or delete or update on trigtest
+	for each row execute procedure trigger_return_old();
+insert into trigtest values(1, 'foo');
+select * from trigtest;
+ f1 | f2  
+----+-----
+  1 | foo
+(1 row)
+
+update trigtest set f2 = f2 || 'bar';
+select * from trigtest;
+ f1 | f2  
+----+-----
+  1 | foo
+(1 row)
+
+delete from trigtest;
+select * from trigtest;
+ f1 | f2 
+----+----
+(0 rows)
+
+drop table trigtest;
 create sequence ttdummy_seq increment 10 start 0 minvalue 0;
 create table tttest (
 	price_id	int4,
diff --git a/src/test/regress/input/create_function_1.source b/src/test/regress/input/create_function_1.source
index aef15182874..7a86d5218db 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/input/create_function_1.source
+++ b/src/test/regress/input/create_function_1.source
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ CREATE FUNCTION funny_dup17 ()
         AS '@libdir@/regress@DLSUFFIX@'
         LANGUAGE C;
 
+CREATE FUNCTION trigger_return_old ()
+        RETURNS trigger
+        AS '@libdir@/regress@DLSUFFIX@'
+        LANGUAGE C;
+
 CREATE FUNCTION ttdummy ()
         RETURNS trigger
         AS '@libdir@/regress@DLSUFFIX@'
diff --git a/src/test/regress/output/create_function_1.source b/src/test/regress/output/create_function_1.source
index 9761d127e1f..57b461f46a6 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/output/create_function_1.source
+++ b/src/test/regress/output/create_function_1.source
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ CREATE FUNCTION funny_dup17 ()
         RETURNS trigger
         AS '@libdir@/regress@DLSUFFIX@'
         LANGUAGE C;
+CREATE FUNCTION trigger_return_old ()
+        RETURNS trigger
+        AS '@libdir@/regress@DLSUFFIX@'
+        LANGUAGE C;
 CREATE FUNCTION ttdummy ()
         RETURNS trigger
         AS '@libdir@/regress@DLSUFFIX@'
diff --git a/src/test/regress/regress.c b/src/test/regress/regress.c
index eaa35ec3fca..53fc0b7da7b 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/regress.c
+++ b/src/test/regress/regress.c
@@ -444,6 +444,22 @@ funny_dup17(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return PointerGetDatum(tuple);
 }
 
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(trigger_return_old);
+
+Datum
+trigger_return_old(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+	TriggerData *trigdata = (TriggerData *) fcinfo->context;
+	HeapTuple	tuple;
+
+	if (!CALLED_AS_TRIGGER(fcinfo))
+		elog(ERROR, "trigger_return_old: not fired by trigger manager");
+
+	tuple = trigdata->tg_trigtuple;
+
+	return PointerGetDatum(tuple);
+}
+
 #define TTDUMMY_INFINITY	999999
 
 static SPIPlanPtr splan = NULL;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/triggers.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/triggers.sql
index 0ea2c314dee..c4ff1f3f80e 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/triggers.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/triggers.sql
@@ -131,6 +131,22 @@ DROP TABLE fkeys2;
 --
 -- DROP TABLE dup17;
 
+-- Check behavior when trigger returns unmodified trigtuple
+create table trigtest (f1 int, f2 text);
+
+create trigger trigger_return_old
+	before insert or delete or update on trigtest
+	for each row execute procedure trigger_return_old();
+
+insert into trigtest values(1, 'foo');
+select * from trigtest;
+update trigtest set f2 = f2 || 'bar';
+select * from trigtest;
+delete from trigtest;
+select * from trigtest;
+
+drop table trigtest;
+
 create sequence ttdummy_seq increment 10 start 0 minvalue 0;
 
 create table tttest (