Disallow LATERAL references to the target table of an UPDATE/DELETE.

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

Commit: 158b7fa6a34006bdc70b515e14e120d3e896589b
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2014-01-12T00:03:12Z
Releases: 9.4.0
Disallow LATERAL references to the target table of an UPDATE/DELETE.

On second thought, commit 0c051c90082da0b7e5bcaf9aabcbd4f361137cdc was
over-hasty: rather than allowing this case, we ought to reject it for now.
That leaves the field clear for a future feature that allows the target
table to be re-specified in the FROM (or USING) clause, which will enable
left-joining the target table to something else.  We can then also allow
LATERAL references to such an explicitly re-specified target table.
But allowing them right now will create ambiguities or worse for such a
feature, and it isn't something we documented 9.3 as supporting.

While at it, add a convenience subroutine to avoid having several copies
of the ereport for disalllowed-LATERAL-reference cases.

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