On 18.07.22 18:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm kind of tempted to mount an effort to get rid of as many of
> pathnodes.h's "read_write_ignore" annotations as possible. Some are
> necessary to prevent infinite recursion, and others represent considered
> judgments that they'd bloat node dumps more than they're worth --- but
> I think quite a lot of them arose from plain laziness about updating
> outfuncs.c. With the infrastructure we have now, that's no longer
> a good reason.
That was my impression as well, and I agree it would be good to sort
that out.