diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/physical_plan/subquery.rs b/datafusion/core/src/physical_plan/subquery.rs
index 86cb3b2dcc52..e6b2c9f786c5 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/physical_plan/subquery.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/physical_plan/subquery.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 use arrow::compute::concat;
 use std::any::Any;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::task::{Context, Poll};
@@ -61,16 +62,14 @@ impl SubqueryExec {
         input: Arc<dyn ExecutionPlan>,
         cursor: Arc<OuterQueryCursor>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
-        let input_schema = (*input.schema()).clone();
+        let input_schema = input.schema();
 
-        let merged_schema = Schema::try_merge(
-            vec![input_schema].into_iter().chain(
-                subqueries
-                    .iter()
-                    .map(|s| (*s.schema()).clone())
-                    .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
-            ),
-        )?;
+        let mut total_fields = input_schema.fields().clone();
+        for q in subqueries.iter() {
+            total_fields.append(&mut q.schema().fields().clone());
+        }
+
+        let merged_schema = Schema::new_with_metadata(total_fields, HashMap::new());
 
         if merged_schema.fields().len()
             != input.schema().fields().len() + subqueries.len()
diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/sql/planner.rs b/datafusion/core/src/sql/planner.rs
index 2bb928e10b42..ba707259fa28 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/sql/planner.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/sql/planner.rs
@@ -2060,7 +2060,9 @@ impl<'a, S: ContextProvider> SqlToRel<'a, S> {
 
             SQLExpr::Subquery(q) => {
                 let with_outer_query_context = self.with_context(|c| c.outer_query_context_schema.push(Arc::new(schema.clone())));
-                let plan = with_outer_query_context.query_to_plan(*q)?;
+                let alias_name = format!("subquery-{}", self.context.subqueries_plans().unwrap_or_default().unwrap_or_default().len());
+                let plan = with_outer_query_context.query_to_plan_with_alias(*q, Some(alias_name), &mut HashMap::new())?;
+
                 let fields = plan.schema().fields();
                 if fields.len() != 1 {
                     return Err(DataFusionError::Plan(format!("Correlated sub query requires only one column in result set but found: {:?}", fields)));