Fix nested PlaceHolderVar expressions that appear only in targetlists.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 028a0c5a2913f18c954845cc014786912f39fa30
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2011-08-09T04:48:58Z
Releases: 9.1.0
Fix nested PlaceHolderVar expressions that appear only in targetlists.

A PlaceHolderVar's expression might contain another, lower-level
PlaceHolderVar.  If the outer PlaceHolderVar is used, the inner one
certainly will be also, and so we have to make sure that both of them get
into the placeholder_list with correct ph_may_need values during the
initial pre-scan of the query (before deconstruct_jointree starts).
We did this correctly for PlaceHolderVars appearing in the query quals,
but overlooked the issue for those appearing in the top-level targetlist;
with the result that nested placeholders referenced only in the targetlist
did not work correctly, as illustrated in bug #6154.

While at it, add some error checking to find_placeholder_info to ensure
that we don't try to create new placeholders after it's too late to do so;
they have to all be created before deconstruct_jointree starts.

Back-patch to 8.4 where the PlaceHolderVar mechanism was introduced.

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