Check parallel safety in generate_useful_gather_paths

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>

Commit: 86b7cca72d4d0a4e043fac0a2cdd56218ff2f258
Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-12-21T17:29:49Z
Releases: 14.0
Check parallel safety in generate_useful_gather_paths

Commit ebb7ae839d ensured we ignore pathkeys with volatile expressions
when considering adding a sort below a Gather Merge. Turns out we need
to care about parallel safety of the pathkeys too, otherwise we might
try sorting e.g. on results of a correlated subquery (as demonstrated
by a report from Luis Roberto).

Initial investigation by Tom Lane, patch by James Coleman. Backpatch
to 13, where the code was instroduced (as part of Incremental Sort).

Reported-by: Luis Roberto
Author: James Coleman
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/622580997.37108180.1604080457319.JavaMail.zimbra%40siscobra.com.br
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