Test case: SET SESSION optimizer_switch = 'index_merge=off,index_merge_union=off,index_merge_sort_union=off,index_merge_intersection=off,index_condition_pushdown=off,firstmatch=off,loosescan=off,materialization=off,semijoin=off,partial_match_rowid_merge=off,partial_match_table_scan=off,subquery_cache=on,table_elimination=off'; --disable_warnings DROP TABLE /*! IF EXISTS */ CC; DROP TABLE /*! IF EXISTS */ C; --enable_warnings CREATE TABLE `CC` ( `pk` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `col_int_nokey` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, `col_int_key` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, `col_varchar_key` varchar(1) DEFAULT NULL, `col_varchar_nokey` varchar(1) DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`pk`), KEY `col_int_key` (`col_int_key`), KEY `col_varchar_key` (`col_varchar_key`,`col_int_key`) ) ENGINE=MARIA AUTO_INCREMENT=30 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 PAGE_CHECKSUM=1; INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (10,7,8,'v','v'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (11,1,9,'r','r'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (12,5,9,'a','a'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (13,3,186,'m','m'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (14,6,NULL,'y','y'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (15,92,2,'j','j'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (16,7,3,'d','d'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (17,NULL,0,'z','z'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (18,3,133,'e','e'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (19,5,1,'h','h'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (20,1,8,'b','b'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (21,2,5,'s','s'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (22,NULL,5,'e','e'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (23,1,8,'j','j'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (24,0,6,'e','e'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (25,210,51,'f','f'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (26,8,4,'v','v'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (27,7,7,'x','x'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (28,5,6,'m','m'); INSERT INTO `CC` VALUES (29,NULL,4,'c','c'); CREATE TABLE `C` ( `pk` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `col_int_nokey` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, `col_int_key` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, `col_varchar_key` varchar(1) DEFAULT NULL, `col_varchar_nokey` varchar(1) DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`pk`), KEY `col_int_key` (`col_int_key`), KEY `col_varchar_key` (`col_varchar_key`,`col_int_key`) ) ENGINE=MARIA AUTO_INCREMENT=21 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 PAGE_CHECKSUM=1; INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (1,NULL,2,'w','w'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (2,7,9,'m','m'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (3,9,3,'m','m'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (4,7,9,'k','k'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (5,4,NULL,'r','r'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (6,2,9,'t','t'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (7,6,3,'j','j'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (8,8,8,'u','u'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (9,NULL,8,'h','h'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (10,5,53,'o','o'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (11,NULL,0,NULL,NULL); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (12,6,5,'k','k'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (13,188,166,'e','e'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (14,2,3,'n','n'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (15,1,0,'t','t'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (16,1,1,'c','c'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (17,0,9,'m','m'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (18,9,5,'y','y'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (19,NULL,6,'f','f'); INSERT INTO `C` VALUES (20,4,2,'d','d'); CREATE VIEW view_C AS SELECT * FROM C; SELECT table1 .`col_varchar_nokey` FROM C table1 RIGHT JOIN CC LEFT JOIN ( SELECT SUBQUERY1_t2 .* FROM CC SUBQUERY1_t1 LEFT JOIN C SUBQUERY1_t2 ON SUBQUERY1_t2 .`col_int_key` = SUBQUERY1_t1 .`col_int_nokey` ) table3 STRAIGHT_JOIN ( ( SELECT * FROM CC ) table4 JOIN ( CC table5 JOIN C table6 ON table5 .`pk` ) ON table5 .`col_varchar_nokey` ) ON table6 .`pk` = table5 .`col_int_key` ON table5 .`col_varchar_nokey` ON table5 .`col_varchar_key` WHERE table3 .`col_varchar_key` IN ( SELECT `col_varchar_key` FROM view_C ) AND table1 .`col_varchar_key` OR table1 .`pk` ;