On 2022-Aug-01, Amit Langote wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 5:25 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> > I do not think it's a great idea to have ALTER TABLE scribbling on
> > the source parsetree.
> 
> Hmm, I think we already do scribble on the source parse tree even
> before this patch, for example, as ATPrepCmd() does for DROP
> CONSTRAINT:
> 
>             if (recurse)
>                 cmd->subtype = AT_DropConstraintRecurse;

No, actually nothing scribbles on the parsetree, because ATPrepCmd is
working on a copy of the node, so there's no harm done to the original.

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