plpgsql: Don't generate parallel plans for RETURN QUERY.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: 5674a258fd7e6eb496a4e91b0907077dfa7ee336
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-03-24T16:39:07Z
Releases: 9.6.3
plpgsql: Don't generate parallel plans for RETURN QUERY.

Commit 7aea8e4f2daa4b39ca9d1309a0c4aadb0f7ed81b allowed a parallel
plan to be generated when for a RETURN QUERY or RETURN QUERY EXECUTE
statement in a PL/pgsql block, but that's a bad idea because plplgsql
asks the executor for 50 rows at a time.  That means that we'll always
be running serially a plan that was intended for parallel execution,
which is not a good idea.  Fix by not requesting a parallel plan from
the outset.

Per discussion, back-patch to 9.6.  There is a slight risk that, due
to optimizer error, somebody could have a case where the parallel plan
executed serially is actually faster than the supposedly-best serial
plan, but the consensus seems to be that that's not sufficient
justification for leaving 9.6 unpatched.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZ_ZuH+auEeeWnmtorPsgc_SmP+XWbDsJ+cWvWBSjNwDQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobXEhvHbJtWDuPZM9bVSLiTj-kShxQJ2uM5GPDze9fRYA@mail.gmail.com

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