diff --git a/mysql-test/suite/oqgraph/basic.test b/mysql-test/suite/oqgraph/basic.test
index 67c2b88b45e..cd0c3e5b7fa 100644
--- a/mysql-test/suite/oqgraph/basic.test
+++ b/mysql-test/suite/oqgraph/basic.test
@@ -4,6 +4,23 @@ DROP TABLE IF EXISTS graph;
 DROP TABLE IF EXISTS graph2;
 --enable_warnings
 
+
+CREATE TABLE graph2 (
+    latch   VARCHAR(32) NULL,
+    origid  BIGINT    UNSIGNED NULL,
+    destid  BIGINT    UNSIGNED NULL,
+    weight  DOUBLE    NULL,
+    seq     BIGINT    UNSIGNED NULL,
+    linkid  BIGINT    UNSIGNED NULL,
+    KEY (latch, origid, destid) USING HASH,
+    KEY (latch, destid, origid) USING HASH
+  ) ENGINE=OQGRAPH DATA_TABLE='graph_base' ORIGID='from_id', DESTID='to_id';
+SELECT * FROM graph2 WHERE latch='dijkstras' AND origid=1 AND destid=6;
+-- expect fail as follows:
+-- ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'test.graph_base' doesn't exist
+-- because base graph is a necessary precondition at this point
+DROP TABLE graph2;
+
 CREATE TABLE graph_base (
     from_id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
     to_id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,