diff --git a/src/Interpreters/Squashing.cpp b/src/Interpreters/Squashing.cpp
index 95b76c60063..c656a1a797b 100644
--- a/src/Interpreters/Squashing.cpp
+++ b/src/Interpreters/Squashing.cpp
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Chunk Squashing::squash(Chunk && input_chunk)
 
 Chunk Squashing::add(Chunk && input_chunk)
 {
-    if (!input_chunk)
+    if (!input_chunk || input_chunk.getNumRows() == 0)
         return {};
 
     /// Just read block is already enough.
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/03236_squashing_high_memory.reference b/tests/queries/0_stateless/03236_squashing_high_memory.reference
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/03236_squashing_high_memory.sql b/tests/queries/0_stateless/03236_squashing_high_memory.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..523281fb74a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/queries/0_stateless/03236_squashing_high_memory.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS id_values;
+
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test_table;
+
+CREATE TABLE id_values ENGINE MergeTree ORDER BY id1 AS
+    SELECT arrayJoin(range(1000000)) AS id1, arrayJoin(range(1000)) AS id2;
+
+SET max_memory_usage = 1G;
+
+CREATE TABLE test_table ENGINE MergeTree ORDER BY id AS
+SELECT id_values.id1             AS id,
+    string_values.string_val1 AS string_val1,
+    string_values.string_val2 AS string_val2
+FROM id_values
+        JOIN (SELECT arrayJoin(range(10)) AS id1,
+                    'qwe'                AS string_val1,
+                    'asd'                AS string_val2) AS string_values
+            ON id_values.id1 = string_values.id1
+    SETTINGS join_algorithm = 'hash';
+
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS id_values;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test_table;