diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/inputs/non-excludable-rule.sql b/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/inputs/non-excludable-rule.sql
index e3799de5ff71..c02bc8c6063f 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/inputs/non-excludable-rule.sql
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/inputs/non-excludable-rule.sql
@@ -13,3 +13,7 @@ WITH tmp AS (
   SELECT id FROM range(4)
 )
 SELECT id FROM range(3) WHERE id > (SELECT max(id) FROM tmp);
+
+-- SPARK-36979
+SET spark.sql.optimizer.excludedRules=org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer.RewriteLateralSubquery;
+SELECT * FROM testData, LATERAL (SELECT * FROM testData) LIMIT 1;
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/results/non-excludable-rule.sql.out b/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/results/non-excludable-rule.sql.out
index b45e35ea4d8d..6a683995cc33 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/results/non-excludable-rule.sql.out
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/results/non-excludable-rule.sql.out
@@ -37,3 +37,19 @@ SELECT id FROM range(3) WHERE id > (SELECT max(id) FROM tmp)
 struct<id:bigint>
 -- !query output
 2
+
+
+-- !query
+SET spark.sql.optimizer.excludedRules=org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer.RewriteLateralSubquery
+-- !query schema
+struct<key:string,value:string>
+-- !query output
+spark.sql.optimizer.excludedRules	org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer.RewriteLateralSubquery
+
+
+-- !query
+SELECT * FROM testData, LATERAL (SELECT * FROM testData) LIMIT 1
+-- !query schema
+struct<key:int,value:string,key:int,value:string>
+-- !query output
+1	1	1	1
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala
index 2bfaa5b22d5c..214306838402 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala
@@ -4225,13 +4225,6 @@ class SQLQuerySuite extends QueryTest with SharedSparkSession with AdaptiveSpark
     checkAnswer(sql("""SELECT from_json(R'{"a": "\\"}', 'a string')"""), Row(Row("\\")))
   }
 
-  test("SPARK-36979: Add RewriteLateralSubquery rule into nonExcludableRules") {
-    withSQLConf(SQLConf.OPTIMIZER_EXCLUDED_RULES.key ->
-      "org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer.RewriteLateralSubquery") {
-      sql("SELECT * FROM testData, LATERAL (SELECT * FROM testData)").collect()
-    }
-  }
-
   test("TABLE SAMPLE") {
     withTable("test") {
       sql("CREATE TABLE test(c int) USING PARQUET")