Fix mistaken failure to allow parallelism in corner case.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: 036b6bd50365b9ae6ec0b4cb21d172510ef440a9
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-10-27T14:12:16Z
Releases: 9.6.6
Fix mistaken failure to allow parallelism in corner case.

If we try to run a parallel plan in serial mode because, for example,
it's going to be scanned via a cursor, but for some reason we're
already in parallel mode (for example because an outer query is
running in parallel), we'd incorrectly try to launch workers.
Fix by adding a flag to the EState, so that we can be certain that
ExecutePlan() and ExecGather()/ExecGatherMerge() will have the same
idea about whether we are executing serially or in parallel.

Report and fix by Amit Kapila with help from Kuntal Ghosh.  A few
tweaks by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+_BuZrmVCeua5Eqnm4Co9DAXdM5HPAOE2J19ePbR912Q@mail.gmail.com

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