extracted piece of code into a method

In order to fix #10421 I need to enable merge to take an option
so that relations could be merged without making the last where
condition to win.

That fix would forever reside in 4-0-stable branch and would not be
merged to master since using scope without lambda has been deprecated.

In this commit I have extracted code into a method and I think it
makes code look better. Hence the request to merge it in both
master and 4-0-stable.

If there is any concern then this code can be merged only in
4-0-stable and that would be fine too.