bool st_select_lex::optimize_unflattened_subqueries(bool const_only)
{
  SELECT_LEX_UNIT *next_unit= NULL;
  for (SELECT_LEX_UNIT *un= first_inner_unit();
       un;
       un= next_unit ? next_unit : un->next_unit())
  {
    Item_subselect *subquery_predicate= un->item;
    next_unit= NULL;

    if (subquery_predicate)
    {
      if (!subquery_predicate->fixed)
      {
	/*
	 This subquery was excluded as part of some expression so it is
	 invisible from all prepared expression.
       */
	next_unit= un->next_unit();
	un->exclude_level();
	if (next_unit)
	  continue;
	break;
      }
      if (subquery_predicate->substype() == Item_subselect::IN_SUBS)
      {
        Item_in_subselect *in_subs= (Item_in_subselect*) subquery_predicate;
        if (in_subs->is_jtbm_merged)
          continue;
      }

      if (const_only && !subquery_predicate->const_item())
      {
        /* Skip non-constant subqueries if the caller asked so. */
        continue;
      }

      bool empty_union_result= true;
      bool is_correlated_unit= false;
      bool first= true;
      bool union_plan_saved= false;
      /*
        If the subquery is a UNION, optimize all the subqueries in the UNION. If
        there is no UNION, then the loop will execute once for the subquery.
      */
      for (SELECT_LEX *sl= un->first_select(); sl; sl= sl->next_select())
      {
        JOIN *inner_join= sl->join;
        if (first)
          first= false;
        else
        {
          if (!union_plan_saved)
          {
            union_plan_saved= true;
            if (un->save_union_explain(un->thd->lex->explain))
              return true; /* Failure */
          }
        }
        if (!inner_join)
          continue;
        SELECT_LEX *save_select= un->thd->lex->current_select;
        ulonglong save_options;
        int res;
        /* We need only 1 row to determine existence */
        un->set_limit(un->global_parameters());
        un->thd->lex->current_select= sl;
        save_options= inner_join->select_options;
        if (options & SELECT_DESCRIBE)
        {
          /* Optimize the subquery in the context of EXPLAIN. */
          sl->set_explain_type(FALSE);
          sl->options|= SELECT_DESCRIBE;
          inner_join->select_options|= SELECT_DESCRIBE;
        }
        if ((res= inner_join->optimize()))
          return TRUE;
        if (!inner_join->cleaned)
          sl->update_used_tables();
        sl->update_correlated_cache();
        is_correlated_unit|= sl->is_correlated;
        inner_join->select_options= save_options;
        un->thd->lex->current_select= save_select;

        Explain_query *eq;
        if ((eq= inner_join->thd->lex->explain))
        {
          Explain_select *expl_sel;
          if ((expl_sel= eq->get_select(inner_join->select_lex->select_number)))
          {
            sl->set_explain_type(TRUE);
            expl_sel->select_type= sl->type;
          }
        }

        if (empty_union_result)
        {
          /*
            If at least one subquery in a union is non-empty, the UNION result
            is non-empty. If there is no UNION, the only subquery is non-empy.
          */
          empty_union_result= inner_join->empty_result();
        }
        if (res)
          return TRUE;
      }
      if (empty_union_result)
        subquery_predicate->no_rows_in_result();

      if (is_correlated_unit)
      {
        /*
          Some parts of UNION are not correlated. This means we will need to
          re-execute the whole UNION every time. Mark all parts of the UNION
          as correlated so that they are prepared to be executed multiple
          times (if we don't do that, some part of the UNION may free its
          execution data at the end of first execution and crash on the second
          execution)
        */
        for (SELECT_LEX *sl= un->first_select(); sl; sl= sl->next_select())
          sl->uncacheable |= UNCACHEABLE_DEPENDENT;
      }
      else
        un->uncacheable&= ~UNCACHEABLE_DEPENDENT;
      subquery_predicate->is_correlated= is_correlated_unit;
    }
  }
  return FALSE;
}