When synthesizing an ON constraint from a USING or NATURAL, if the left-hand

side is coming from a RIGHT JOIN, be sure to set the EP_CanBeNull flag so that
the optimizer knows to check for NULL even if the column has a NOT NULL
constraint.  Fix for the problem reported by
[forum:/forumpost/4fc70203b61c7e12|forum post 4fc70203b61]

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manifest

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@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ F test/ioerr4.test f130fe9e71008577b342b8874d52984bd04ede2c
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-F test/join.test aca62194ad41b522c55577e0e1bd99da6d5436827225aa850801c36e5f4cc914
+F test/join.test 015ef539ea2b779d0a219f4c0f82f39bf20884aed42142165e56791094d1cf3d
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@@ -2207,8 +2207,8 @@ F tool/version-info.c 3b36468a90faf1bbd59c65fd0eb66522d9f941eedd364fabccd7227350
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-R 45ee8fcc96567a1f284bf3c5475d67ce
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+U drh
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manifest.uuid

@@ -1 +1 @@
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src/select.c

@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ static int sqlite3ProcessJoin(Parse *pParse, Select *p){
         }
         pE1 = sqlite3CreateColumnExpr(db, pSrc, iLeft, iLeftCol);
         sqlite3SrcItemColumnUsed(&pSrc->a[iLeft], iLeftCol);
-        if( (pSrc->a[0].fg.jointype & JT_LTORJ)!=0 ){
+        if( (pSrc->a[0].fg.jointype & JT_LTORJ)!=0 && pParse->nErr==0 ){
           /* This branch runs if the query contains one or more RIGHT or FULL
           ** JOINs.  If only a single table on the left side of this join
           ** contains the zName column, then this branch is a no-op.
@@ -612,6 +612,8 @@ static int sqlite3ProcessJoin(Parse *pParse, Select *p){
           */
           ExprList *pFuncArgs = 0;   /* Arguments to the coalesce() */
           static const Token tkCoalesce = { "coalesce", 8 };
+          assert( pE1!=0 );
+          ExprSetProperty(pE1, EP_CanBeNull);
           while( tableAndColumnIndex(pSrc, iLeft+1, i, zName, &iLeft, &iLeftCol,
                                      pRight->fg.isSynthUsing)!=0 ){
             if( pSrc->a[iLeft].fg.isUsing==0

test/join.test

@@ -1304,4 +1304,32 @@ do_execsql_test join-30.3 {
    WHERE x <= y;
 } {}
 
+# 2025-05-30 https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/4fc70203b61c7e12
+#
+# When converting a USING(x) or NATURAL into the constraint expression
+# t1.x==t2.x, mark the t1.x term as EP_CanBeNull if it is the left table
+# of a RIGHT JOIN.
+#
+reset_db
+db null NULL
+do_execsql_test join-31.1 {
+  CREATE TABLE t1(c0 INT , c1 INT); INSERT INTO t1(c0, c1) VALUES(NULL,11);
+  CREATE TABLE t2(c0 INT NOT NULL);
+  CREATE TABLE t2n(c0 INT);
+  CREATE TABLE t3(x INT);           INSERT INTO t3(x) VALUES(4);
+  CREATE TABLE t5(c0 INT, x INT);   INSERT INTO t5 VALUES(NULL, 4);
+}
+do_execsql_test join-31.2 {
+  SELECT * FROM t2 RIGHT JOIN t3 ON true LEFT JOIN t1 USING(c0);
+} {NULL 4 NULL}
+do_execsql_test join-31.3 {
+  SELECT * FROM t2 RIGHT JOIN t3 ON true NATURAL LEFT JOIN t1;
+} {NULL 4 NULL}
+do_execsql_test join-31.4 {
+  SELECT * FROM t2n RIGHT JOIN t3 ON true LEFT JOIN t1 USING(c0);
+} {NULL 4 NULL}
+do_execsql_test join-31.5 {
+  SELECT * FROM t5 LEFT JOIN t1 USING(c0);
+} {NULL 4 NULL}
+
 finish_test