diff --git a/go/vt/schemadiff/schema.go b/go/vt/schemadiff/schema.go
index bbd1258070e..c251779061c 100644
--- a/go/vt/schemadiff/schema.go
+++ b/go/vt/schemadiff/schema.go
@@ -1085,6 +1085,11 @@ func (s *Schema) ValidateViewReferences() error {
 					View:   view.Name(),
 					Column: e.Column.Name.String(),
 				}
+			case *semantics.UnsupportedConstruct:
+				// These are error types from semantic analysis for executing queries. When we
+				// have a view, we don't have Vitess execute these queries but MySQL does, so
+				// we don't want to return errors for these.
+				return nil
 			}
 			return err
 		}
diff --git a/go/vt/schemadiff/schema_test.go b/go/vt/schemadiff/schema_test.go
index 1710cec12c7..43cfcf78bdc 100644
--- a/go/vt/schemadiff/schema_test.go
+++ b/go/vt/schemadiff/schema_test.go
@@ -570,6 +570,20 @@ func TestInvalidSchema(t *testing.T) {
 			`,
 			expectErr: &DuplicateForeignKeyConstraintNameError{Table: "t2", Constraint: "const_id"},
 		},
+		{
+			schema: `
+CREATE TABLE users (id INT PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(255));
+CREATE VIEW user_earnings_ranking AS
+SELECT
+    u.id AS user_id,
+    e.total_earnings AS total_earnings,
+    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (
+        ORDER BY e.total_earnings DESC, u.id ASC
+    ) AS ranking
+FROM users AS u JOIN earnings AS e ON e.user_id = u.id;
+`,
+			expectErr: &ViewDependencyUnresolvedError{View: "user_earnings_ranking"},
+		},
 	}
 	for _, ts := range tt {
 		t.Run(ts.schema, func(t *testing.T) {