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> >> Uh, what? Sure you can. Just because the existing code never has a
> >> reason to create such a dependency doesn't mean it wouldn't work.
>
> > Well, I thought that `pg_depend` was not intended to be used from
> > user-defined code and it's something "internal".
>
> Well, no, we're not expecting that SQL code will manually insert rows
> there. This feature should have some sort of SQL command that will
> set up the relevant catalog entries, including the dependencies.
> If you don't want to do that, you're going to need the runtime tests.
Sure, an SQL command for that purpose is much better than a runtime check.
I'm going to add such command to the patch, thank you for the information!