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diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/path/joinrels.c b/src/backend/optimizer/path/joinrels.c
index c16b2fdf514..3c99c8ce49d 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/path/joinrels.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/path/joinrels.c
@@ -470,11 +470,30 @@ join_is_legal(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel1, RelOptInfo *rel2,
{
/*
* Otherwise, the proposed join overlaps the RHS but isn't a valid
- * implementation of this SJ. It might still be a legal join,
- * however, if we're allowed to associate it into the RHS of this
- * SJ. That means this SJ must be a LEFT join (not SEMI or ANTI,
- * and certainly not FULL) and the proposed join must not overlap
- * the LHS.
+ * implementation of this SJ. But don't panic quite yet: the RHS
+ * violation might have occurred previously, in one or both input
+ * relations, in which case we must have previously decided that
+ * it was OK to commute some other SJ with this one. If we need
+ * to perform this join to finish building up the RHS, rejecting
+ * it could lead to not finding any plan at all. (This can occur
+ * because of the heuristics elsewhere in this file that postpone
+ * clauseless joins: we might not consider doing a clauseless join
+ * within the RHS until after we've performed other, validly
+ * commutable SJs with one or both sides of the clauseless join.)
+ * This consideration boils down to the rule that if both inputs
+ * overlap the RHS, we can allow the join --- they are either
+ * fully within the RHS, or represent previously-allowed joins to
+ * rels outside it.
+ */
+ if (bms_overlap(rel1->relids, sjinfo->min_righthand) &&
+ bms_overlap(rel2->relids, sjinfo->min_righthand))
+ continue; /* assume valid previous violation of RHS */
+
+ /*
+ * The proposed join could still be legal, but only if we're
+ * allowed to associate it into the RHS of this SJ. That means
+ * this SJ must be a LEFT join (not SEMI or ANTI, and certainly
+ * not FULL) and the proposed join must not overlap the LHS.
*/
if (sjinfo->jointype != JOIN_LEFT ||
bms_overlap(joinrelids, sjinfo->min_lefthand))