diff --git a/pkgs/servers/nosql/rethinkdb/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/nosql/rethinkdb/default.nix
index cc82e75a6154..e935b5d09879 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/nosql/rethinkdb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/nosql/rethinkdb/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0a6wlgqa2flf87jrp4fq4y9aihwyhgwclmss56z03b8hd5k5j8f4";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    (fetchurl {
+        url = "https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/commit/871bd3705a1f29c4ab07a096d562a4b06231a97c.patch";
+        sha256 = "05nagixlwnq3x7441fhll5vs70pxppbsciw8qjqp660bdb5m4jm1";
+    })
+  ];
+
   postPatch = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
     sed -i 's/raise.*No Xcode or CLT version detected.*/version = "7.0.0"/' external/v8_3.30.33.16/build/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py