Facing an infinite render when a query fails using react-query. useQuery should only re-fetch if queryKey changes, or on request failure according to retry parameter.

Why is queryFn being re-executed?

Reproducible example: https://stackblitz.com/edit/ilias-react-query-loop?file=src%2Fmain.tsx

const queryClient = new QueryClient({
  defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } },
});

const useFailingQuery = () =>
  useQuery({
    queryKey: ['static'],
    queryFn() {
      console.log('Fetching...');
      throw new Error('Fail');
      return {};
    },
  });

const Component = () => {
  useFailingQuery();
  return <h1>Component</h1>;
};

const App = () => {
  const { isLoading } = useFailingQuery();

  // This causes infinite query retry
  if (isLoading) {
    return <span>Loading...</span>;
  }

  return <Component />;
};

ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(
  <React.StrictMode>
    <QueryClientProvider client={queryClient}>
      <App />
    </QueryClientProvider>
  </React.StrictMode>
);