Fix behavior of float aggregates for single Inf or NaN inputs.

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

Commit: 03109a53020e4663df3a8d822cdc665a7d712a93
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2020-06-13T17:43:40Z
Releases: 14.0
Fix behavior of float aggregates for single Inf or NaN inputs.

When there is just one non-null input value, and it is infinity or NaN,
aggregates such as stddev_pop and covar_pop should produce a NaN
result, because the calculation is not well-defined.  They used to do
so, but since we adopted Youngs-Cramer aggregation in commit e954a727f,
they produced zero instead.  That's an oversight, so fix it.  Add tests
exercising these edge cases.

Affected aggregates are

 var_pop(double precision)
 stddev_pop(double precision)
 var_pop(real)
 stddev_pop(real)
 regr_sxx(double precision,double precision)
 regr_syy(double precision,double precision)
 regr_sxy(double precision,double precision)
 regr_r2(double precision,double precision)
 regr_slope(double precision,double precision)
 regr_intercept(double precision,double precision)
 covar_pop(double precision,double precision)
 corr(double precision,double precision)

Back-patch to v12 where the behavior change was accidentally introduced.

Report and patch by me; thanks to Dean Rasheed for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/353062.1591898766@sss.pgh.pa.us

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