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-rw-r--r--src/backend/optimizer/plan/analyzejoins.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/analyzejoins.c b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/analyzejoins.c
index 0dfefd71f21..f79bc4430c1 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/analyzejoins.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/analyzejoins.c
@@ -183,6 +183,14 @@ join_is_removable(PlannerInfo *root, SpecialJoinInfo *sjinfo)
if (!bms_get_singleton_member(sjinfo->min_righthand, &innerrelid))
return false;
+ /*
+ * Never try to eliminate a left join to the query result rel. Although
+ * the case is syntactically impossible in standard SQL, MERGE will build
+ * a join tree that looks exactly like that.
+ */
+ if (innerrelid == root->parse->resultRelation)
+ return false;
+
innerrel = find_base_rel(root, innerrelid);
/*