If action and qual reference same object in CREATE RULE, it results in creating duplicate entries in pg_depend for it. Doesn't pose any harm, just unnecessarily bloats pg_depend. Reference InsertRule(). I think should be able to avoid adding duplicate entries.
Don't know if this behaviour was discussed earlier, I didn't find it on search. We accidentally encountered it while enhancing a catalog check tool for Greenplum Database. For example (from rules test): create table rtest_t5 (a int4, b text); create table rtest_t7 (a int4, b text); create rule rtest_t5_ins as on insert to rtest_t5 where new.a > 15 do insert into rtest_t7 values (new.a, new.b); # select classid::regclass, refobjid::regclass,* from pg_depend where refobjid='rtest_t5'::regclass and deptype = 'n'; classid | refobjid | classid | objid | objsubid | refclassid | refobjid | refobjsubid | deptype ------------+----------+---------+-------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+--------- pg_rewrite | rtest_t5 | 2618 | 16457 | 0 | 1259 | 16445 | 1 | n pg_rewrite | rtest_t5 | 2618 | 16457 | 0 | 1259 | 16445 | 1 | n pg_rewrite | rtest_t5 | 2618 | 16457 | 0 | 1259 | 16445 | 2 | n (3 rows) -- *Ashwin Agrawal (VMware)*
