Fix testing of parallel-safety of SubPlans.

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

Commit: 39151781c8cd2c8bf6057496426fb9c07178eda5
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2017-04-18T19:43:56Z
Releases: 10.0
Fix testing of parallel-safety of SubPlans.

is_parallel_safe() supposed that the only relevant property of a SubPlan
was the parallel safety of the referenced subplan tree.  This is wrong:
the testexpr or args subtrees might contain parallel-unsafe stuff, as
demonstrated by the test case added here.  However, just recursing into the
subtrees fails in a different way: we'll typically find PARAM_EXEC Params
representing the subplan's output columns in the testexpr.  The previous
coding supposed that any Param must be treated as parallel-restricted, so
that a naive attempt at fixing this disabled parallel pushdown of SubPlans
altogether.  We must instead determine, for any visited Param, whether it
is one that would be computed by a surrounding SubPlan node; if so, it's
safe to push down along with the SubPlan node.

We might later be able to extend this logic to cope with Params used for
correlated subplans and other cases; but that's a task for v11 or beyond.

Tom Lane and Amit Kapila

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7064.1492022469@sss.pgh.pa.us

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