Don't generate fake "*SELECT*" or "*SELECT* %d" subquery aliases.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: 585e31fcb6dfcb1d88cfee2371f565574db24869
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-09-08T15:50:33Z
Don't generate fake "*SELECT*" or "*SELECT* %d" subquery aliases.

rte->alias should point only to a user-written alias, but in these
cases that principle was violated. Fixing this causes some regression
test output changes: wherever rte->alias previously had a value and
is now NULL, rte->eref is now set to a generated name rather than to
rte->alias; and the scheme used to generate eref names differs from
what we were doing for aliases.

The upshot is that instead of "*SELECT*" or "*SELECT* %d",
EXPLAIN will now emit "unnamed_subquery" or "unnamed_subquery_%d".
But that's a reasonable descriptor, and we were already producing
that in yet other cases, so this seems not too objectionable.

Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Co-authored-by: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYSYmDA2GvanzPMci084n+mVucv0bJ0HPbs6uhmMN6HMg@mail.gmail.com

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