On 29.11.22 22:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> I notice that EquivalenceClass is already marked as no_copy_equal,
>> which means that gen_node_support.pl can know that emitting a
>> recursive node-copy or node-compare request is a bad idea. What
>> do you think of using the patch as it stands, plus a cross-check
>> that we don't emit COPY_NODE_FIELD or COMPARE_NODE_FIELD if the
>> target node type is no_copy or no_equal?
>
> Concretely, it seems like something like the attached could be
> useful, independently of the other change.
Yes, right now you can easily declare things that don't make sense.
Cross-checks like these look useful.
