diff --git a/src/backend/cdb/cdbsubselect.c b/src/backend/cdb/cdbsubselect.c
index 63d35d5b3cba88a40c231739480f20bd2cf3dc9d..2dcbf6d74b51cbddfdba8fe564552eddc929fa00 100644
--- a/src/backend/cdb/cdbsubselect.c
+++ b/src/backend/cdb/cdbsubselect.c
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ IsCorrelatedOpExpr(OpExpr *opexp, Expr **innerExpr)
 	 * It is correlated only if we found an outer var and inner expr
 	 */
 
-	if (tOuterExpr)
+	if (tOuterExpr && contain_vars_of_level((Node *) tInnerExpr, 0))
 	{
 		*innerExpr = tInnerExpr;
 		return true;