Teach planner how to propagate pathkeys from sub-SELECTs in FROM up to

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

Commit: 056467ec6bcbd81a9d1480af8d641946a5ef1bff
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2003-02-15T20:12:41Z
Releases: 7.4.1
Teach planner how to propagate pathkeys from sub-SELECTs in FROM up to
the outer query.  (The implementation is a bit klugy, but it would take
nontrivial restructuring to make it nicer, which this is probably not
worth.)  This avoids unnecessary sort steps in examples like
SELECT foo,count(*) FROM (SELECT ... ORDER BY foo,bar) sub GROUP BY foo
which means there is now a reasonable technique for controlling the
order of inputs to custom aggregates, even in the grouping case.

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