Re: deparsing utility commands

Shulgin, Oleksandr wrote:

> Another quirk of ALTER TABLE is that due to multi-pass processing in
> ATRewriteCatalogs, the same command might be collected a number of times.
> For example, in src/test/regress/sql/inherit.sql:
>
> alter table a alter column aa type integer using bit_length(aa);
>
> the "alter column type" then appears 4 times in the deparsed output as
> identical subcommands of a single ALTER TABLE command.

Yeah, I had a hack somewhere in the collection code that if the relation
ID was different from what was specified, then the command was ignored.
I removed that before commit because it seemed possible that for some
cases you actually want the command reported separately for each child.

I think our best option in this case is to ignore commands that are
reported for different relations during JSON deparsing. Not sure how
easy that is.

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