Improve parsetree representation of special functions such as CURRENT_DATE.

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

Commit: 0bb51aa96783e8a6c473c2b5e3725e23e95db834
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2016-08-17T00:33:01Z
Releases: 10.0
Improve parsetree representation of special functions such as CURRENT_DATE.

We implement a dozen or so parameterless functions that the SQL standard
defines special syntax for.  Up to now, that was done by converting them
into more or less ad-hoc constructs such as "'now'::text::date".  That's
messy for multiple reasons: it exposes what should be implementation
details to users, and performance is worse than it needs to be in several
cases.  To improve matters, invent a new expression node type
SQLValueFunction that can represent any of these parameterless functions.

Bump catversion because this changes stored parsetrees for rules.

Discussion: <30058.1463091294@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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