The problem was in the way table references are pre-filtered when
resolving a qualified field. When resolving qualified table references
we search recursively in the operands of the join. If there is
natural/using join with a merge view, the first call to find_field_in_table_ref
makes a recursive call to itself with the view as the new table reference
to search for the column. However the view has both nested_join and
join_columns != NULL so it skipped the test whether the view name matches
the field qualifier. As a result the field was found in the view since the
view already has a field with the same name. Thus the field was incorrectly
resolved as the view field.